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New sodium ion battery stores twice the energy and desalinates seawater (www.sciencedaily.com)
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[–] 14 points 7 months ago (1 child)

R&d on these I'm guessing takes a little while. And it greatly depends on what niche they fill. Like the poster above said these might have lower density. For applications that move, that's not usually good. How sensitive are they to hot and cold? That could necessitate thermal management.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    They have slightly lower density right now, but there is work to increase the density, and it could very well get up to about 210wh/kg which would put it directly on par with current lithium ion batteries. So it could replace the low end of the EV market without any significant change except for a reduction in price by a lot.

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