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EV Guru: Sodium-Ion Batteries are Coming Sooner Than You think!

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In India, OLA Electric and Tata group have plans to make cells at a large scale. Video: EV Guru: Sodium-Ion Batteries are Coming Sooner Than You think! The mining industry cannot keep up with the demand, so the alternative is to manufacture batteries based on sodium chemistry. Sodium is bigger and heavier than lithium cell.

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ANL team develops new class of Li- and Na- rechargeable batteries based on selenium and selenium-sulfur; greater volumetric energy densities than sulfur-based batteries

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Researchers at Argonne National Laboratory have developed selenium and selenium–sulfur (Se x S y )-based cathode materials for a new class of room-temperature lithium and sodium batteries. systems suffer from cycling performance issues that impede their commercial applications: Li/O 2. Click to enlarge. V) without failure. S y systems.

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Berkeley Lab leading investigation to quantify and characterize Salton Sea’s geothermal lithium resources

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There are currently 11 commercial plants at the Salton Sea field producing geothermal energy, a process in which hot fluids are pumped up from deep underground and the heat is then converted to electricity. Pat and his group will put that in a database. Earlier post.). Credit: Jenny Nuss/Berkeley Lab). With nearly $1.2

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Antimony nanocrystals as high-capacity anode materials for both Li-ion and Na-ion batteries

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Photo: Maksym Kovalenko Group / ETH Zürich) Click to enlarge. Initial studies revealed that antimony could be suitable for both rechargeable lithium- and sodium-ion batteries because it is able to store both kinds of ions. TEM image (false colored) of monodisperse antimony nanocrystals. —Maksym Kovalenko.

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OSU team demonstrates concept of potassium-air battery as alternative to lithium-air systems

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V), which contributes to the low rechargeability. contrast with LiO 2 and NaO 2 , KO 2 is thermodynamically stable and commercially available. Potassium, an alkali metal similar to lithium (and sodium) can be used in a rechargeable battery. V), which renders the system with a low round-trip energy efficiency around 60%.

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European automotive and automotive battery industries call for extension of the exemption of lead-based batteries from the EU ELV Directive

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The comments are part of the formal submission made by the industry group to EU regulators who concluded the public consultation phase of the review of the End of Life Vehicle (ELV) Directive this week. This electrical system is in all cases supplied by a 12V lead-based battery, the groups said.

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Swiss researchers devise simple procedure to enhance performance of conventional Li-ion batteries without changing chemistries

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Materials researchers at the Swiss Paul Scherrer Institute PSI in Villigen and the ETH Zurich have developed a very simple and cost-effective procedure for significantly enhancing the performance of conventional Li-ion rechargeable batteries by improving only the design of the electrodes without changing the underlying materials chemistry.

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