Trade Tensions With China Clear Path for Salt-Powered Batteries
Bloomberg reports that long a pipe dream, sodium-ion batteries are gaining market share as lithium tariffs create uncertainty.
The idea of making batteries from sodium has been around for centuries. In Jules Verne’s 1870 novel, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Captain Nemo drives an electric submarine powered by salt. But while researchers have experimented for years with using the cheap, superabundant material for power storage, sodium-ion batteries could never match the energy density of other battery types,... ...
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