you’d have to design your own charger and battery management modules
Just searched for “Sodium-ion BMS” on Aliexpress:
screenshot of aforementioned search’s results, showing listings for sodium-ion bms boards for AU$10~AU$40 or so
Comment on The Sodium-Ion Battery Revolution Has Started
OctopusNemeses@lemmy.world 3 days agoDid you read the article? This isn’t about a research paper that talks about theoretical lab experiments. Sodium batteries are in real world application right now. Mainly in China and South America.
You can buy sodium batteries from AliExpress. It’s been available for a while. I was thinking about ordering a few but I ended up spending my hobby budget elsewhere. There’s no economies of scale yet for sodium battery tech. You can get the battery but there is zero electronics available for it. Mainly you’d have to design your own charger and battery management modules. That’s out of my pay grade. I’ve been waiting for Chinese engineers to mass produce such things.
rcbrk@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world 3 days ago
i hope isdt releases a firmware update for the q6 nano for that if RC sodium ion packs become available.
although afaik energy density per volume and weight isn’t quite there yet
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
You can buy a lot of bullshit from AliExpress.
OctopusNemeses@lemmy.world 2 days ago
There’s a world that exists outside of your bubble. It’s real. No matter how much you bury your head in the sand.
AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world 3 days ago
they’re actively manufactured for consumers, and cheap and available enough to be relatively competitive with lithium ion on there