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I'll be watching with interest to see what happens at Reliance in India, with Faradion's sodium-ion batteries. India seems like an ideal market in that a cheap
by tuatoru 4y ago
I'll be watching with interest to see what happens at Reliance in India, with Faradion's sodium-ion batteries.
India seems like an ideal market in that a cheap EV with a smallish sodium-ion battery represents a huge step up in mobility for many crores of Indian families. That's less true in Europe and North America.
1. https://cen.acs.org/materials/energy-storage/Reliance-buys-sodium-ion-battery/100/web/2022/01 https://cen.acs.org/materials/energy-storage/Reliance-buys-s...
- akimball 4y agoOutside of India, "crores" looks like a typo, rather than a quantifier.
- tuatoru 4y agoHandy spoken shorthand for 10,000,000 though. And I was talking about intra-India events.
- AtlasBarfed 4y agoAgreed, if your goal is the 150-200 mile city car (as in kei-car like compact car), and it's $40/kwhr, wow will those be cheap to make. The "pseudo rocket equation" of EVs comes into play: small car, smaller battery to get usable range. So some behemoth Model S or X sized car in the US that needs a 100kwh pack to get 300+ miles needs 20kwh hours to get a kei car 150 miles. And of course e-bikes, e-mopeds, e-scooters, etc.