• rafoix@lemmy.zip
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    2 days ago

    add significant weight to cars

    I think Americans liking giant cars are a bigger issue with that than the weight of the batteries themselves.

    CATL claim 10,000 cycles for their sodium battery which is way more than your article. Is selectscience.net a trusted source? CATL at least makes batteries in the real world but the burden of proof is on them this year.

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      While CATL has done work and has made real world solutions, I wouldn’t take their marketing material over the broader scientific consensus.

      I am totally willing to buy that the market ends up between NMC and Sodium with LFP left behind despite having some advantages over sodium. Of course as solid state becomes a thing, that will be more of a factor than Na v. LFP v. NMC.