@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 1 month agoNorth Carolina is getting a $1.4B sodium-ion battery gigafactoryelectrek.coexternal-linkmessage-square94fedilinkarrow-up1385arrow-down15 cross-posted to: [email protected][email protected]
arrow-up1380arrow-down1external-linkNorth Carolina is getting a $1.4B sodium-ion battery gigafactoryelectrek.co@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 1 month agomessage-square94fedilink cross-posted to: [email protected][email protected]
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•1 month agoLower price and longer life. 50,000 complete cycles. That’s 136 years of complete empty to complete full. Most of these will outlast their mounting hardware.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•1 month agoSure. Drop them in budget cars, and when the cars are ready to EOL, move the batteries to energy storage.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•1 month agoYep. And decommissioning time? The sodium is all recyclable without major effort, and the Prussian Blue analogs can be discarded.
Lower price and longer life.
50,000 complete cycles. That’s 136 years of complete empty to complete full. Most of these will outlast their mounting hardware.
Sure. Drop them in budget cars, and when the cars are ready to EOL, move the batteries to energy storage.
Yep. And decommissioning time? The sodium is all recyclable without major effort, and the Prussian Blue analogs can be discarded.