Plug In India

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Video: EV Guru: Sodium-Ion Batteries are Coming Sooner Than You think! “Tesla might actually have to get into the mining & refining directly at scale, unless costs improve. The mining industry cannot keep up with the demand, so the alternative is to manufacture batteries based on sodium chemistry.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

F 0.7 , for sodium-ion (Na-ion) batteries (NIBs). While high-energy Li-ion batteries (LIBs) are expected to contribute in part to the solution, the high cost and low stability prohibit wide application in this area, the researchers observe. Ragone plot for the new Na 1.5 cathode and other cathode materials for NIBs. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2014

RAL researchers are proposing a new process for the decomposition of ammonia to release hydrogen that involves the stoichiometric decomposition and formation of sodium amide from Na metal. Arguably, this focus may have diminished the consideration of reversibility, cost, and practicality of use of these materials. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2014

Under their continued work with ARPA-E, EaglePicher will focus its research on improving scalability for their Sodium-Beta (Na-β) battery by developing an inexpensive stacked design to improve integration in renewable and grid storage applications. Overview of the original EPT/PNNL project on planar sodium batteries.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 1, 2022

Reliance New Energy Solar Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Reliance Industries Ltd, will acquire 100% shareholding in sodium-ion battery developer Faradion Limited ( earlier post ) for an enterprise value of £100 million (US$135 million). Sodium is the sixth-most abundant element on the planet.

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CleanTechnica EVs

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

The abundance and low cost of sodium has made it a promising alternative to lithium for an ion battery system. Overall, the outlook for the use of sodium-ion batteries in current technology is favorable, as long as cost, safety, cyclic stability, and energy density guidelines are met.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2009

GE Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt shows a sodium-metal halide battery cell at the press conference announcing the battery plant. GE says the planned facility will produce approximately 10 million sodium-metal halide cells each year—equivalent to 900 MWh of energy storage, or enough to support 1,000 GE hybrid locomotives. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 4, 2011

The new battery uses sodium-containing substances melted at a high temperature. Sumitomo Electric worked with researchers at Kyoto University to develop a sodium material that melts at 57 C. A drawback to the general class of molten salt batteries has been high operating temperatures.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

Haldor Topsøe A/S, a global market leader in catalysis and related process technologies, recently acquired 18% of the shares in sodium-ion battery technology company Faradion Ltd, based in Sheffield, UK. Other partners in the investment included Finance Yorkshire’s Seedcorn Fund and Rising Stars Growth Fund II LP.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2013

Benson from Stanford University and Stanford’s Global Climate and Energy Project (GCEP) has quantified the energetic costs of 7 different grid-scale energy storage technologies over time. The data revealed that all five battery technologies have high embodied-energy costs compared with pumped hydroelectric storage. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

Purification of the lithium, then reaction with sodium carbonate to convert it to lithium carbonate. The competitiveness of the Eramet DLE process ranks it in the first quartile of the cash cost curve of the lithium industry (cash cost of c.$3,500/t 3,500/t LCE EXW), with large-scale drainable resources (nearly 10 Mt LCE).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Next generation sodium ion batteries–NEXGENNA. It will accelerate the development of sodium ion battery technology by taking a multi-disciplinary approach incorporating fundamental chemistry right through to considerations for scale-up and cell manufacturing.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 19, 2014

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. Sodium is regarded as a possible low-cost alternative to lithium as it is much more naturally abundant and its reserves are more evenly distributed on Earth.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2016

Researchers from George Washington University and Vanderbilt University have demonstrated the conversion of atmospheric CO 2 into carbon nanofibers (CNFs) and carbon nanotubes (CNTs) for use as high-performance anodes in both lithium-ion and sodium-ion batteries. times above that of sodium-ion batteries with graphite electrodes.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2021

Alkaline water electrolysis systems electrolyze water using an alkaline electrolyte such as potassium hydroxide (KOH) or sodium hydroxide (NaOH). Also, it has the advantage of being able to produce large-scale hydrogen and using relatively inexpensive catalysts, making facility costs low.

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APRIL 9, 2022

It is usually associated with other lithium minerals; spodumene has a chemical composition of LiAlSi 2 O 6 but small amounts of sodium sometimes substitute for lithium. MinRes will be responsible for contributing its share of the capital costs of this conversion capacity.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

The company began with various approaches and technologies including the use of costly sodium borohydride. the system designs based on sodium borohydride were complex, fragile, and came with many challenges for end-users. In 2013 HES pushed forward with a new material and a highly simplified system.

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MAY 28, 2014

Their low cost and ability to start the engine at cold temperatures sets them apart in conventional and basic micro-hybrid vehicles, and as auxiliary batteries in all other automotive applications, according to the report. Sodium-nickel chloride batteries. Click to enlarge. Lithium-ion batteries.

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MAY 9, 2013

Researchers at the US Department of Energy (DOE)’s Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) have developed a new technique for pre-treating cellulosic biomass with ionic liquids that could reduce the cost of producing advanced biofuels from plant sugars. —Blake Simmons.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 3, 2022

Identify a compelling pathway to a battery cost of. lithium (Li), sodium (Na), potassium (K), magnesium (Mg), calcium (Ca)]. Retain a minimum of 90% capacity (relative to initial values) after the battery has delivered 200,000 miles of equivalent and cumulative range. Anode materials based on alkali or alkaline earth metals [e.g.,

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Driivz

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The pluses are the lower cost and easier availability of iron and phosphate, making LFPs an increasingly attractive choice to reduce the cost of EVs. Another approach under development is adding lithium salt to the electrolyte of lithium-ion batteries to reduce flammability.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

million) by Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC) to extend the operating life and lower the product cost of FCgen(TM)-1300, the fuel cell power plant that powers Ballard’s CLEARgen distributed generation system. Ballard Power Systems has been conditionally awarded up to C$7 million (US$7.2

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My Electric Car

JANUARY 29, 2023

At the same time the cost of lithium-ion battery packs declined 87% between 2008 and 2021. Another chemistry that is coming onstream is sodium ion. CATL, the world’s biggest battery manufacturer and BYD have both indicated they will have Sodium-ion (Na-ion) packs ready for cars this year (2023). million kilometers.

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JULY 4, 2012

Lithium-ion and molten-salt battery costs will approach $500/kWh by 2022, reducing the high capital cost of emerging grid storage technologies. Molten-salt batteries hold the most potential to be the cheapest large-scale systems, with manufacturing improvements playing the largest role, accounting for 95% of the cost reduction.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 25, 2024

Given how fast things change in this business, chances are lithium-ion batteries – which have drawbacks in terms of sustainability, energy security and cost – will be overtaken by another type of energy storage. SIBs are benign, containing no lithium or cobalt, and sodium is abundant worldwide.

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Teslarati

JULY 29, 2021

(CATL) unveiled its sodium-ion battery earlier today, along with a solution that could integrate the cells with lithium-ion batteries in a single pack. The sodium-ion cells are a more cost-effective option than the lithium-ion batteries, opening the door for lower prices in the EV battleground market of China. CATL sold 34.1

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2021

Accurate simulations of batteries will provide battery makers with the ability to design advanced batteries without incurring the costs of creating numerous prototypes to test every new material, or new type and configuration of the cells which make up a pack.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 4, 2015

carbon capture and storage, CCS—are emerging and may offer the opportunity to offset the cost of CO 2 capture. EPA cited the Skyonics Skymine project as an example of captured CO 2 being used in the production of carbonate products—in this case, sodium carbonate and sodium bicarbonate.

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MAY 5, 2016

A new study by a team from Carnegie Mellon University’s College of Engineering has found that even large increases in lithium prices are unlikely to increase significantly the cost of batteries or battery packs for end users such as vehicle manufactures or consumers—although some manufacturers may see reduced profit margins.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2013

Recovering and marketing lithium from the brines would produce significant revenue to offset the cost of brine production, treatment and CO 2 storage operations. Due to their high salinity, brines from the CO 2 storage reservoirs would have to be pumped to the surface and treated—often an expensive process.

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DECEMBER 2, 2014

The enzymatic process eliminates the need for sodium methoxide, one of the most hazardous chemicals in traditional biodiesel plants. The enzymatic process uses less energy, and the cost of waste oil as a feedstock is significantly lower than refined oils. Recommended conditions for the enzyme reactor: 0.7% Source: Novozymes.

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Setec Powerr

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Others solid battery types are nickel-cadmium and sodium-sulphur, while zinc-air is emerging. According to a recent study by Bloomberg NEF (BNEF), the cost of lithium-ion batteries will be significantly reduced in the coming years — beyond even the 85% reduction that occurred from 2010 to 2018.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2018

However, the high concentration of salt comes with distinct downsides, including the high cost of lithium salt. They say the concept of using this novel fluorine-based diluent to manipulate salt concentration also works well for sodium-metal batteries and other metal batteries.

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OCTOBER 16, 2012

of Greene to develop an electric forklift for use in freezer warehouses using GE’s Durathon sodium-halide batteries. which seeks to develop graphene-based high energy ultracapacitors with three times the energy density of current commercial devices at the same cost. GE Energy Storage , which seeks to work with Raymond Corp.

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MARCH 1, 2012

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. Click to enlarge. A paper on their work is published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. V) without failure. S y systems. Chapman, Peter J.

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MAY 12, 2017

The efficiency gain in steam deployment will allow MEG to redeploy existing steam generation capacity to new patterns, further increasing bitumen production and reducing the overall per barrel footprint and cost of bitumen production. Steam generation is the main contributor to GHG emissions and the operating cost of bitumen production.

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MARCH 21, 2013

The new approach, described in an open access paper in the journal Biotechnology for Biofuels , potentially could significantly reduce costs of sugar production from lignocellulose by eliminating the need for costly enzymes and decreasing the water consumption requirements. —Sun et al.

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