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Sodium-ion batteries have started to appear in cars and home storage

(cleantechnica.com)
160 points xbmcuser | 1 comments | 23 Oct 25 01:36 UTC | HN request time: 0.208s | source
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tedk-42 ◴[23 Oct 25 05:14 UTC] No.45678361[source]▶
Where are all the commenters about how China can't innovate and they can only steal technology now...

Reverse that, why don't other countries / companies try and steal their talent and IP? Is everyone resigned to think that China are undefeatable on the technology/manufacturing of these batteries?

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1. ZeroGravitas ◴[23 Oct 25 09:18 UTC] No.45679869[source]▶
The anti-China story on Sodium batteries used to be that the evil Chinese had monopolised all the lithium that the rest of the world mines and then ships to them for processing and turning into batteries.

So American companies would develop sodium instead and break this market wide open.

But the Chinese appear to have beat them to it.