I’ve been hearing about these for a few years now. Huge if they work out at a large scale.

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      According to Wikipedia:

      Looks like power to weight it much higher, while energy per volume and energy per mass is comparable to existing lithium ion batteries.

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        idk about that, the regularly cited reason Na-ion batteries are mainly being looked at for grid storage rather than vehicle applications is their bad Wh/l and W/kg numbers compared to Li-ion. the table in the Na-ion article seems to use “1000W/kg” without a source, and it shows lithium as being about a third of that even though the Li-ion article quotes figures up to 10kW/kg.

        seems the editors of the two articles aren’t cross-checking eachother.

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          Googling says 175 whr/kg for catls sodium car battery that’s already in production cars vs 270 whr/kg for Tesla’s lithium.

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            Probably numbers for the raw cell though, not the balancing and cooling which could make sodium a bit more competitive.

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          ion. the table in the Na-ion article seems to use “1000W/kg” without a source, and it shows lithium as being about a third of that even though the Li-ion article quotes figures up to 10kW/kg.

          seems the editors of the two articles aren’t cross-checking eachother.

          No, it seems like you have zero idea what you are talking about and are confusing W/kg with Wh/kg, which are very different metrics

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          See, that’s what I thought, but the wiki article seems to disagree.

          Or am I just misreading something?

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      I think they are testing Unigrid battery model 72173207 (terrible name). That is their 210Ah NCO prismatic cells.

      I found this spec sheet. No definitive metrics, but someone else could do the napkin math.