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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: 0s | source
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qnleigh ◴[23 Oct 25 08:35 UTC] No.45679594[source]▶
If sodium batteries are so much cheaper, why is the emphasis of this article on batteries for trucks and not grid-scale storage? Isn't the latter much more impactful?

Also naively I would expect sodium batteries to be heavier that lithium, which would make them worse for transportation but still fine for energy storage.

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1. perlgeek ◴[23 Oct 25 10:00 UTC] No.45680143[source]▶
Probably familiarity bias; the author has more contact with EVs and/or expect the reader to have more contact with them.