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Originally Posted by Wolven
They are mass producing the sodium-ion batteries as Naxtra.
- Longer battery range
- Less degradation
- Better performance in cold
- No exploding in a ball of fire
- Sodium is easily available around the world
Apparently 6 automakers are going to put Naxtra batteries in 30 different 2026 models.
With this just being the first version of the battery, there is a lot of potential for these batteries to go from comparable to Lithium to vastly superior.
This is the kind of innovation I was hoping Canada would be leading going all of the way back to Ballard power fuel cell excitement ~20 years ago.
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Some sodium ion batteries are fire proof, fire resistant. But not all. Pure sodium would react more violently than lithium so it some situations it is a worse application. Sodium is 3 times heavier and therefore the energy density isn't as good. which would make cars heavier, which would reduce distance performance, damage roads more, etc. It would be very good for static storage, but may be awhile off in vehicles.
Note that lithium or sodium is not a huge part of the battery, so it is not like the overall weight is tripled