Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

After years of anticipation, sodium-ion batteries are starting to deliver on their promise for energy storage. Sodium-ion batteries just don't have the oomph needed for EVs and laptops. Researchers now report a new type of graphene electrode that could boost the storage capacity of sodium batteries to rival lithium's.

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Teslarati

JULY 29, 2021

(CATL) unveiled its sodium-ion battery earlier today, along with a solution that could integrate the cells with lithium-ion batteries in a single pack. The sodium-ion cells are a more cost-effective option than the lithium-ion batteries, opening the door for lower prices in the EV battleground market of China.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2019

Solid-state sodium-ion batteries are safer than conventional lithium-ion batteries, which pose a risk of fire and explosions, but their performance has been too weak to offset the safety advantages. Credit: University of Houston. The researchers said the contact remained steady through at least 200 cycles.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JANUARY 7, 2022

Researchers at Bristol have developed high-performance sodium and potassium ion batteries using sustainably sourced cellulose.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 29, 2022

Blackstone Technology GmbH may begin commercialization of 3D-printed solid-state sodium-ion batteries as early as 2025. Furthermore, the upscaling of sodium-based solid-state electrolytes on a ton scale is being developed in order to be able to produce them in the Blackstone Group from 2025.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 25, 2024

Car technology has never been in such a state of flux as it is now, and given lithium-ion batteries only really became a commercial big deal in the 1990s, the sudden shift towards cars powered by them is extraordinary. SIBs are benign, containing no lithium or cobalt, and sodium is abundant worldwide.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Australia-based Sparc Technologies has entered into a strategic partnership agreement with the Queensland University of Technology (QUT). We will be targeting the production of materials for the high growth market of sodium-ion batteries which is displaying significant promise as an alternative to lithium-ion batteries.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Stanford researchers have developed a sodium-ion battery (SIB) that can store the same amount of energy as a state-of-the-art lithium ion, at substantially lower cost. Thus, further research is required to find better sodium host materials. The sodium salt makes up the cathode; the anode is made up of phosphorous.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2014

Researchers at the University of Maryland, with colleagues at the University of Illinois at Chicago, report on a new method for expanding graphite for use as a superior anode for sodium-ion batteries in a paper in Nature Communications. to enlarge the interlayer lattice distance to accomodate the larger sodium ions.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

Professor John Goodenough, the inventor of the lithium-ion battery, and his team at the University of Texas at Austin have identified a new cathode material made of the nontoxic and inexpensive mineral eldfellite (NaFe(SO 4 ) 2 ), presenting a significant advancement in the quest for a commercially viable sodium-ion battery.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2023

ARPA-E selected the following 12 teams from universities, national laboratories and the private sector to address and remove key technology barriers to EV adoption by developing next-generation battery technologies: 24M Technologies will develop low-cost and fast-charging sodium metal batteries with good low-temperature performance for EVs.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 20, 2023

For example, in 2021, CATL rolled out the first generation of sodium-ion battery with an energy density of 160 Wh/kg. Currently CATL has an extensive technology roadmap for batteries, and has developed the capability to turn fundamental research to industrial application, and then to large-scale commercial applications.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2015

The Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) has awarded $3 million from its 2015 OPEN funding to a project to develop an all-solid-state sodium battery. A sodium-based battery, on the other hand, has the potential to store larger amounts of electrical energy at a significantly lower cost. Led by Steve W.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

The University of Michigan (U-M) and eight partner institutions will explore the use of ceramic ion conductors as replacements for the traditional liquid or polymer electrolytes in common lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles and in flow cells for storing renewable energy in the grid.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2015

British battery R&D company Faradion has demonstrated a proof-of-concept electric bike powered by sodium-ion batteries at the headquarters of Williams Advanced Engineering, which collaborated in the development of the bike. Oxford University was also a partner. Sodium-ion intercalation batteries—i.e.,

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Electric Cars Report

JULY 7, 2024

Enter a breakthrough from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU): solid-state batteries based on potassium and sodium silicates, a common and affordable minerals found in everyday rocks. Electric cars are surging in popularity, but limitations with current battery technology are a hurdle.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Sodium-ion batteries (Na-ion, NIBs) are seen as an alternative to lithium-ion batteries for large-scale applications due to their lower cost and abundant supply of sodium. Yissum is the technology transfer company of the University. It gives a high capacity of 730?mAh?g —Yu et al.

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Plug In India

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

By Kamlesh & Raphae Every major automaker has announced plans to build Lithium-Ion battery gigafactories. In addition, about 90% of the world’s supply of lithium is controlled by Chinese companies. Video: EV Guru: Sodium-Ion Batteries are Coming Sooner Than You think! Also sodium is universally available.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

This expanded portfolio has the dual aims of improving current generation lithium ion batteries as well as longer horizon materials discovery and optimisation projects to support the commercialisation of next-generation batteries. The project’s Principal Investigator is Professor Patrick Grant of the University of Oxford.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2019

Natron Energy, a developer of new battery cell technology based on Prussian Blue analogue electrodes and a sodium-ion electrolyte, has ( earlier post ), has been awarded a $3-million grant by the California Energy Commission (CEC) for “Advanced Energy Storage for Electric Vehicle Charging Support.”

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2021

Researchers at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia have developed a continuous electrically-driven membrane process which successfully enriches lithium from seawater samples of the Red Sea by 43,000 times (i.e., ppm) and an abundance of interfering ions (i.e., to 9013.43

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2021

Although mass manufacture has made lithium-ion batteries cheaper, cost and durability remain obstacles to the widespread adoption of battery electrical vehicles. Recycling and reuse (ReLiB) , led by Dr Paul Anderson, University of Birmingham, with researchers from the Universities of Edinburgh, Leicester, Newcastle and UCL.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 7, 2011

low-cost Na-ion battery system for upcoming power and energy. Lithium-ion rechargeable batteries perform well, but are too expensive for widespread use on the grid. Sodium-ion batteries have been discussed in the literature. suitable host material to accommodate the Na ions and allow. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2019

Natron Energy , a developer of new battery cell technology based on Prussian Blue analogue electrodes and a sodium-ion electrolyte, has closed a strategic investment by Chevron Technology Ventures (CTV) to support the development of stationary energy storage systems for demand charge management at electric vehicle (EV) charging stations.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 4, 2011

in partnership with Kyoto University, has developed a lower temperature molten-salt rechargeable battery that promises to cost only about 10% as much as lithium ion batteries. The new battery uses sodium-containing substances melted at a high temperature. The company and the university have applied for patents.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2012

The first international “Science Award Electrochemistry” from BASF and Volkswagen ( earlier post ) goes to Dr. Naoaki Yabuuchi, Tokyo University of Science, Institute for Science and Technology, Tokyo, Japan. Yabuuchi has showed, among other things, how new battery materials can improve the efficiency of lithium-ion and sodium-ion batteries.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 24, 2012

Researchers at the University of Maryland have developed a nanocomposite material of amorphous, porous FePO 4 nanoparticles electrically wired by single-wall carbon nanotubes as a potential cathode material for sodium-ion batteries (SIBs). SWNT composite is a promising cathode material for viable sodium-ion batteries.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2021

But the promise is worth pursuing, says MIT Professor Yet-Ming Chiang, because the amount of energy that can be stored in experimental versions of such cells is already nearly double that of conventional lithium-ion batteries. The next step was to replicate that performance with an actual lithium-containing electrode.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 18, 2019

Researchers at the University of California San Diego have improved their recycling process that regenerates degraded cathodes from spent lithium-ion batteries. Illustration of the process to restore lithium ions to degraded NMC cathodes using eutectic molten salts at ambient pressure. —Zheng Chen.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2011

Researchers at Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany, have improved the performance of sodium-ion batteries ( earlier post ) by using tailor-made carbon materials with hierarchical porosity for the anode instead of common carbon-based anode materials. Performance of the new anodes. Wenzel et al. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Researchers at Vanderbilt University have demonstrated that ultrafine sizes (∼4.5 nm, average) of iron pyrite (FeS 2 ) nanoparticles are advantageous to sustain reversible conversion reactions in sodium ion and lithium ion batteries. A paper on their work is published in the journal ACS Nano.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 28, 2015

Supported by an ARPA-E grant, LiRAP has proven to be a safe alternative compared to the liquid electrolytes used in most of today’s lithium ion batteries. The LiRAP solid electrolytes conduct Li + ions well at high voltage and high current, providing much enhanced energy density and power capacity as well as safety.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 15, 2018

Lithium and cobalt are fundamental components of present lithium-ion batteries. The researchers present these results in the journal Nature Reviews Materials as part of a cost and resource analysis of sodium-ion batteries. … Passerini (2018) “A cost and resource analysis of sodium-ion batteries“ Nat.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 26, 2024

A team from the Beijing University of Chemical Technology has used a formic acid-hydrogen peroxide system for selective leaching of lithium ions from spent lithium iron phosphate batteries. A paper on their process was published in the Journal of Power Sources.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2015

Researchers led by a team from Griffith University in Australia have developed a multifunctional polymer binder that not only maintains the outstanding binding capabilities of sodium alginate but also enhances the mechanical integrity and lithium-ion diffusion coefficient in a LiFePO 4 (LFP) electrode during the operation of the batteries.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2011

Example of a lithium-water rechargeable battery. Researchers at the University of Texas, including Dr. John Goodenough, are proposing a strategy for high-capacity next-generation alkali (lithium or sodium)-ion batteries using water-soluble redox couples as the cathode. Credit: ACS, Lu et al. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Australian advanced materials technology company Talga Resources Ltd announced positive initial test results from the development of its graphene silicon lithium-ion anode in the UK. Interim samples are being prepared for delivery to end users in Asia under confidentiality and material transfer agreements.

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