EV battery leader CATL set to launch first sodium-ion batteries in vehicles

9 pointsposted 14 days ago
by breve
(electrek.co)

5 Comments

chrsw

14 days ago

As an American, I feel like I'm sitting on the sidelines as the world, particularly China, zooms past us in the future of automobile technology, and more broadly, battery tech.

_aavaa_

14 days ago

Not just that, but I feel there is backwards movement, or at least attempts at it, from the administration…

magicalhippo

14 days ago

"Backwards into the future" was their campaign platform, so not a huge surprise I think. They didn't use exactly those words, but yeah.

burnt-resistor

14 days ago

Yep. Exactly this. Can't buy BYD cars either. Going to have to a hard time selling Donut Lab batteries, attracting new talent, welcoming tourists, and more.. it's completely unnecessary self-sabotage by a hateful, felonious, child-diddling slumlord and failed reality star.

metalman

14 days ago

sodium batteries are going to drop the price point on cars significantly, and at the same time make small solar much more accesable. for rural agrarian places in developing countrys removing energy costs will be tranformative. given that there are still several billion people living in rudementry conditions worldwide, it makes Chinas market for these things essentialy infinite, but only at that utra low price point. all in all the need for hydrocarbons will fall to a small percentage of current demand and quickly at that