It seems to be the same size as this?
Sineng Electric launches world’s largest sodium-ion battery storage project
Submitted 3 months ago by silence7@slrpnk.net to technology@lemmy.world
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schizoidman@lemm.ee 3 months ago
silence7@slrpnk.net 3 months ago
Sounds like it.
Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Wikipedia has a decent (albeit somewhat outdated?) comparison with other battery types.
Seems like sodium-ion batteries are somewhat cheaper, require more space and have lower usable cycles.
WrathUDidntQuiteMask@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Probably also just aa important to note that sodium is much more readily available than lithium and doesn’t require geopolitical wars or slave-labor to acquire.
Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Agreed, that is an important point. That being said, it was raised in the article, a more “technical” comparison wasn’t provided.
girsaysdoom@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
What’s interesting to me is the power to weight ratio. Sodium-Ion is at ~1000 W/Kg vs Li-Ion at ~175-425 W/Kg. EVs could maybe have less weight and cost in the future because of this.
themurphy@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
Sodium-ion has a lower power to weight ratio. Lithium is better in this regard.
Sodium-ion is used on the ground as storage for this reason. It’s not to be beneficial to put it into a moveable object.