• Alphane Moon@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Wikipedia has a decent (albeit somewhat outdated?) comparison with other battery types.

    Seems like sodium-ion batteries are somewhat cheaper, require more space and have lower usable cycles.

    • WrathUDidntQuiteMask@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Probably also just aa important to note that sodium is much more readily available than lithium and doesn’t require geopolitical wars or slave-labor to acquire.

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        2 months ago

        Agreed, that is an important point. That being said, it was raised in the article, a more “technical” comparison wasn’t provided.

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      2 months ago

      What’s interesting to me is the power to weight ratio. Sodium-Ion is at ~1000 W/Kg vs Li-Ion at ~175-425 W/Kg. EVs could maybe have less weight and cost in the future because of this.