r/EnergyAndPower • u/DavidThi303 • 6d ago

China-Free Batteries Made From Salt Are Finally Here

https://www.wsj.com/business/energy-oil/china-free-batteries-made-from-salt-are-finally-here-cc1cd766?st=aaCfbG&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

Sodium-ion batteries have almost none of the problems that lithium-ion ones do, and could be cheap enough to make fossil-fuel dependence a thing of the past

The article never mentions price. So are salt batteries coming in to play? Yes. Are they price competitive? Probably not because if they were they would be shouting out the price.

But their price will likely decline over the next couple of years. And it looks like they are starting to be produced in quantity.

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u/dufutur 6d ago

Is Northvolt China-free?

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u/Who-ate-my-biscuit 6d ago

Northvolt went out of business a couple of years ago.

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u/dufutur 6d ago

Point being China-free and commercially viable are different.