Sodium batteries to revolutionise eV adoption due to their lower cost and better performance in cold weather

Once reason EVs are falling in price, not just as TESLA (and BYD maybe ) are lowering their prices to bankrupt most other car manufacturers EV and/or ICE producing, is that the price of lithium as been falling like a stone as Sodium emerges a competing battery tech.

Sodium has been impractical as an EV battery element as it resulted in too low an energy density ie only about 100 Wh per kilogram but now as it approaches 200 Wh per kilogram it is in contention.   Add that to superior cold weather performance to Lithium, or with lithium iron phosphate batteries and the economic sense of EVs over ICE cars become more compelling.

Maybe a mixture or some Lithium and some Sodium ion batteries, more sodium if the vehicles being operated in colder climates................

Edited 17 April, 20233 yr by lol-lol