Current Li-ion batteries have numerous issues, but fortunately there are several alternatives too. Bringing a new battery chemistry to production scale hasn’t been easy, but we’re taking small steps like that every year. Who knows which one of them ends up dominating the market after a few decades.
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Eventually I hope we end up with sodium batteries.
But that’s probably a long way off still
Ramenator@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Not that far off actually, China started producing the first sodium ion battery powered car in series this year
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Nice.
The whole sodium story is how we should be going about shit.
We didn’t focus on making the best battery and came up with sodium.
A couple college students instead looked for the most abundent and easily accessible thing we can make batteries out of.
Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 4 months ago
Sodium batteries would be a welcome change. Solid state batteries are another interesting technology that looks promising.