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New sodium ion battery stores twice the energy and desalinates seawater (www.sciencedaily.com)
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[โ€“] Buffalox@lemmy.world 4 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

It takes time to scale up production, CATL is already building factories for it:

https://www.catl.com/en/news/6401.html

On April 21, 2025, CATL unveiled three groundbreaking EV battery products at its inaugural Super Tech Day: The Freevoy Dual-Power Battery, Naxtra - the world's first mass produced sodium-ion battery

[โ€“] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 hours ago

These press releases are weekly. Naxtra will be 30% cheaper, but also bigger and heavier. The problem here is the damn periodic table, someone should change it.