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Northvolt develops state-of-the-art sodium-ion battery

Electric Cars Report

Northvolt today announced a state-of-the-art sodium-ion battery, developed for the expansion of cost-efficient and sustainable energy storage systems worldwide.

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BYD May Begin Sodium-Ion Battery Production In 2023

CleanTechnica EVs

Reports from China suggest BYD may be the first manufacturer to bring electric cars with sodium-ion batteries to market.

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CATL unveils new sodium-ion battery for electric vehicles 

Electric Vehicles India

CATL unveils new sodium-ion battery for electric vehicles . The Contemporary Amperex Technology Ltd (CATL), the world’s largest electric car battery maker has unveiled a new battery that runs on the affordable and abundantly available sodium instead of lithium. CATL unveils new sodium-ion battery.

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Battery revolution! Has Stellantis cracked the code for super-cheap EVs that will undercut ICE?

EV Central

The global auto giant Stellantis has done a deal with a French battery-maker to secure fresh sodium-ion battery technology for its future EVs that could see electric cars finally undercut petrol cars on purchase price. Not that sodium-ion batteries are perfect, not just yet at least.

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GAO: US government obligated $1.3+ billion in 39 battery and energy storage initiatives from FY 2009-2012; fragmented but not duplicative

Green Car Congress

Federal Agency Battery and Energy Storage Initiatives and Funding Obligations, Fiscal Years 2009. GAO was asked to: identify the scope and key characteristics of federal battery and energy storage initiatives; determine the extent to which there is potential fragmentation, overlap, or duplication, if any, among these initiatives; and.

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Study suggests lithium and cobalt for batteries may face supply risks by 2050

Green Car Congress

The researchers present these results in the journal Nature Reviews Materials as part of a cost and resource analysis of sodium-ion batteries. … However, at present, the use of cobalt is still often necessary for cathode materials with high energy density owing to its stabilizing effect in layered oxides (including NCM(622) and NCA).

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New, Really New EV Battery News. It’s New. Really!

CleanTechnica EVs

Sodium batteries. Sulfur batteries. The quest for cheaper, more powerful batteries is accelerating.

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