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According to napkin math, that makes the cost of this battery $63800000/400000kwh = $159.5/kWh. According to this report, li batteries are $115/kwh: https://w
by ajdude 1y ago
According to napkin math, that makes the cost of this battery
$63800000/400000kwh = $159.5/kWh.
According to this report, li batteries are $115/kwh: https://www.morganlewis.com/pubs/2025/03/a-2025-update-on-utility-scale-energy-storage-procurements https://www.morganlewis.com/pubs/2025/03/a-2025-update-on-ut...
- toomuchtodo 1y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44513185 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44513185 LFP is ~$52/kWh.
- naasking 1y agoEconomies of scale haven't even begun to kick in for sodium batteries.
- toomuchtodo 1y agoStrongly agree, importantly this demonstrates across various battery chemistries that fossil fuels for electricity are dead. It’s just time and velocity of deployment now.
- shvalipron 1y agoIs this with labor included?They also state in the article that this is the hybrid system which contains Lithium and Sodium batteries
- znpy 1y ago> li batteries are $115/kwh With or without import tariffs ? If import tariffs can shift the price in favor of sodium-ion batteries that would be a great win, as sodium-ion batteries are much greener (extracting lithium is a very environment-damaging process) and free of slave labor (to extract rare earth materials like lithium).
- ZeroGravitas 1y agoLithium is not rare, nor is it a "rare earth" (which are not rare either).