How CATL’s Reinforced Sodium Battery is Insanely Cheap
Category: Health, Science & Technology
Via: bob-nelson • 11 months ago • 5 commentsBy: Ryan Inis Hughes
CATL have secretly been filing many patents - and I came across one that really caught my interest.
I believe their new full scale approach towards sodium-ion (of course, alongside the lithium ion cells) is due to a breakthrough that will make their manufacturing a lot cheaper and easier!
We saw a lot of improvements in ICE in the 1980s as manufacturers were forced to react to petroleum shocks and unbreathable air. Not much since...
OTOH, battery and motor tech is just now going through that same explosive development phase. And of course, the Trump Administration is ensuring that America will be absent....
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With support, science (and engineering) will continue to find better solutions for existing challenges. Battery technology can and will improve like everything else. If we want faster, better, cheaper batteries then we should encourage the research and development.
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Very interesting. Still not quite there as far as the charge density and discharge, but it is definitely better on the sub freezing chargeability end of things.
ICE tech is full of compromises. Do you promote gas mileage or power? And a dozen others.
Battery tech also has compromises. From what I understand, sodium-iron cannot be as energy dense as batteries with the toxic crap used now. But it can be much, much cheaper. So the obvious trade-off will be cost/weight.