@[email protected] to TechnologyEnglish • 6 months agoNorth Carolina is getting a $1.4B sodium-ion battery gigafactoryelectrek.coexternal-linkmessage-square92fedilinkarrow-up1385arrow-down17 cross-posted to: northcarolina[email protected]
arrow-up1378arrow-down1external-linkNorth Carolina is getting a $1.4B sodium-ion battery gigafactoryelectrek.co@[email protected] to TechnologyEnglish • 6 months agomessage-square92fedilink cross-posted to: northcarolina[email protected]
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•6 months 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•6 months 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•6 months 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.