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[–] CalcProgrammer1@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 months ago

Sodium ion sounds like a very promising battery tech for a lot of things due to sodium's abundance and ease of access, but it's less energy dense than lithium so I still see lithium battery tech being king in most applications where battery size and weight matter - portable electronics and EVs mostly. Sodium ion tech sounds best suited for grid-scale energy storage, home backup/solar batteries, and other such applications where cost is more important than size or weight.