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Problem with sodium is very limited amount of charging cycles, which is less than 100 at current stage of development.
by breadloaf 4y ago
Problem with sodium is very limited amount of charging cycles, which is less than 100 at current stage of development.
- AtlasBarfed 4y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium-ion_battery https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium-ion_battery Uh, look at the table for Cycles 80% discharge. "hundreds to thousands" https://pushevs.com/2021/05/28/sodium-ion-batteries-are-coming/ https://pushevs.com/2021/05/28/sodium-ion-batteries-are-comi... Those seem to indicate 6,000 to 8,000 cycles. But will have to see what the actual numbers are from production, like any battery technology. But I trust numbers from things that are "1 year from production" far better than the "prototype with production in 5-10 years" like solid state batteries seem stuck in. And we need the scaling NOW. Actually we needed it 10-30 years ago. I wonder if, like solar cells, if we had good government research and subsidies in the 1960s where we would be with solar cells, wind, and battery. Especially wind, it's not like wind farms needed nanotech-scale chemistry and manufacturing.