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

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The aim is to build batteries at a large scale to reduce prices. Video: EV Guru: Sodium-Ion Batteries are Coming Sooner Than You think! “Price of lithium has gone to insane levels!” The mining industry cannot keep up with the demand, so the alternative is to manufacture batteries based on sodium chemistry.

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Researchers propose new VO2 cathode material for aluminum-ion rechargeable battery

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Sodium-ion and magnesium-ion batteries, as new energy storage systems in portable devices, have attracted much attention of the investigators. Some multivalent metal elements, such as aluminium and titanium, are abundant metallic elements in the earth’s crust with low price.

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Ningbo researchers propose mixed-ion Li/Na batteries

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Lithium-intercalation compounds and sodium-intercalation compounds are used for anode and cathode, respectively. Sodium-ion based rechargeable batteries (SIBs, e.g., earlier post ) are of interest due to sodium’s abundance, far lower prices, and a greener synthesis while maintaining a similarity in ion-insertion chemistry.

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Researchers call for integration of materials sustainability into battery research; the need for in situ monitoring

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In a review paper in the journal Nature Materials , Jean-Marie Tarascon (Professor at College de France and Director of RS2E, French Network on Electrochemical Energy Storage) and Clare Gray (Professor at the University of Cambridge), call for integrating the sustainability of battery materials into the R&D efforts to improve rechargeable batteries.

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Top 5 Promising Technological Developments In The Electric Vehicle Sector

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Unsurprisingly, one-third of the price of an electric car goes to batteries. Along with sodium-based alternatives, could soon supplant the seemingly obsolete lithium-ion battery. #2. Having a good infrastructure for recharging electric cars very important to increase electric vehicle mobility globally.

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DOE Awarding $620M for Smart Grid Demonstration and Energy Storage Projects

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Center for the Commercialization of Electric Technologies (TX). This effort will build on Austin Energy’s existing Smart Grid programs by creating a microgrid that will initially link 1,000 residential smart meters, 75 commercial meters, and plug-in electric vehicle charging sites. Premium Power Corporation (MA). 16,080,554.

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How Umicore is ensuring sustainability in the North American EV battery chain

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The company expects the first commercial applications to appear around 2027. Robert Privette: Rechargeable batteries are among the building blocks for the green energy transition. Q&A with Umicore’s Robert Privette Umicore traces its roots to a Belgian mining company formed in 1906.