Vanadium Opens The Door To Low-Cost EV Batteries Made From Salt
Researchers are deploying vanadium to develop a new generation of high performing, low cost sodium-ion EV batteries and stationary energy storage systems.
Sodium
Buh-Bye, Conflict Minerals: US Gets First Sodium-Ion Battery Factory
The sodium-ion battery of the future is coming to decarbonize US data centers and backup generators, now do electric vehicles.
Gas-Killing Flow Battery Deploys Table Salt For Long Duration Energy Storage
Statkraft is evaluating a new flow battery based on table salt to pull more wind and solar power into the grid.
New Sodium, Aluminum Battery Aims to Integrate Renewables for Grid Resiliency
Low-cost, Earth-abundant raw materials power a new grid energy storage solution
Scientists Use Multivalent Cation Additives to Rid Rechargeable Batteries of a Common Pitfall
Researchers at Tohoku University have unearthed a means to stabilize lithium or sodium depositions in rechargeable batteries, helping keep their metallic structure intact. The discovery prevents potential battery degradation and short circuiting, and paves the way for higher energy-density metal-anode batteries. Courtesy of Tohoku University Scientists are ever-seeking to develop … [continued]
Scientists Develop a Novel Strategy for Sustainable Sodium & Potassium Batteries
Scientists astounded by performance of sustainable batteries with far-reaching implications for electric vehicles and devices. Researchers at Bristol have developed high-performance sodium and potassium ion batteries using sustainably sourced cellulose. Scientists at the Bristol Composites Institute have developed a novel controllable unidirectional ice-templating strategy which can tailor the electrochemical performances of next-generation … [continued]
Sodium-Air Batteries May Best Lithium-Air Batteries
Lithium-air batteries have the potential to achieve extremely high energy densities that would render the range issue of electric vehicles completely unimportant. However, they still need work, and it’s not a foregone conclusion which battery technology will lead the market in a decade or so. Some researchers have decided to pursue … [continued]
