Goodbye Lithium! NEW Sodium Ion 4.0 Battery Changes Everything in 2023!

lead to the commercialization of Solomon batteries, as soon as the cost of

lithium

-ion batteries increases again, the cost of

lithium

has risen from $4,450 per ton in 2012 to $78,032 in 2022. This is an increase of thousand six hundred and fifty-four percent in the last decade and a 480 percent increase just last year, what if a new

battery

cost only about fifteen dollars and fifteen cents per kilowatt hour compared to $101 per kilowatt hour for a lithium

battery

? Exactly the exciting battery innovation that C-A-L-T has to offer So what makes the cost of this innovative battery so low? what other advantages come with all this and more in today's episode of Tesla car world welcome back to our channel friends before we start, please show your support by subscribing if you haven't already and ringing the bell so you don't miss out none of our interesting videos in the future.

Now let's start with today's content. Battery technology is advancing so quickly that it's sometimes hard to keep up. That said, catl has established a large supply chain for batteries and has entered into negotiations with some automakers about the possibilities of using

sodium

-ion batteries. Sodium ion technology is already cheap and safe, but can it displace lithium ion technology? Elon Musk tweeted that the price of lithium has reached incredible levels, so how does the price of a

sodium

-ion battery compare? The absolute advantage of sodium ion is low cost. Sodium makes up 2.3 percent of the world's crust. It is more than a thousand times more abundant than lithium from the perspective of raw materials for anodes.

The recent price of lithium carbonate is 570,000 per ton while the price of sodium carbonate is less than three thousand dollars per ton. means it is 190 times cheaper than a lithium ion battery even said that sodium has better conductivity and the concentration of the electrolyte can be reduced, which also reduces the cost by about 85 percent and they are more common and are They find cheaper, although those are the advantages, the average price of a Tesla 4680 battery pack will be 101 dollars per kilowatt hour in 2022, we can use this to calculate the costs of the new battery, which is approximately 15.15 per kilowatt hour or almost seven times less than the 4680 battery, so if you own a standard-range Tesla Model 3 with an estimated battery capacity of 50 kilowatt hours instead of having to pay five thousand and fifty dollars for a revolutionary battery that It's a game changer, the cost is really low, but how far can the sodium ion battery really go?

Its applications in passenger cars have proven to generally meet the needs of models with a range of up to 248 miles through its pioneering ab battery system integration technology, catl has achieved a mixture of sodium ion and lithium ion which allows them to complement each other and thus increase the energy density of the battery system. This approach allows sodium ion batteries to be able to support EV models with a range of up to 310 miles, while the 4680 model has only a range of 279 miles, but charging time is what they often care about. to most electric vehicles, so how long would it take to charge a sodium ion battery?

The cells can be charged in 15 minutes up to 80 percent at room temperature compared to fast charging at a public station. A Tesla Model Y recharges from zero to eighty percent in 30 to 32 minutes, which is more than twice as long as the sodium ion battery. How well? Do sodium ions work in sub-zero temperatures? Lithium-ion batteries can only function optimally between 15 and 35 degrees Celsius, making them problematic in winter. Catl sodium ion battery will maintain a capacity retention rate of 90 at negative 20 degrees Celsius and still has a retention rate of more than 70 percent at negative 40 degrees Celsius in winter, the problem of inability of driving electric vehicles will no longer be evident and we have also not seen anything that says there is significant degradation at higher temperatures. sodium ion batteries Actually, sodium ion battery has similar working principles as lithium ion battery.

Sodium ions also move between the cathode and anode; However, compared to lithium ions, sodium ions have a larger volume and higher requirements in terms of structural and kinetic stability. properties, this has become a bottleneck for the industrialization of sodium ion batteries. Sodium ion batteries are safer because they are less flammable than lithium ion batteries. The newly developed sodium ion technology uses a natural fire extinguishing solution that is also resistant to temperature

changes

and can operate at high voltages. A key to this feature is the ultra-thin protective layer that forms on the anode. This ultrathin layer remains stable once formed, providing the long cycle life reported in the research article despite achieving significant advances that the chemical composition of lithium metal batteries has always posed. many challenges, what exactly are they now?

I understand that sodium ion batteries have a lower energy density than lithium ion batteries. The biggest drawback is that sodium ion batteries have a lower energy density than lithium ion batteries. This means that an electric vehicle with a sodium battery the same size as a standard lithium-ion battery wouldn't be able to travel as far on a single charge. Catl's first-generation sodium battery generated 160 watt hours of electricity next to a conventional lithium battery last year. Catl presented its first sodium battery prototype and said it has focused on developing new technologies for a second-generation sodium battery that can generate 200 watt hours per kilogram, in contrast to conventional lithium-ion batteries that have between 200 and 300 watt hours per kilogram, although their lower energy density is constantly improving compared to the first generation of sodium-ion batteries.

It's better than the lithium-ion cells of six or seven years ago. What about real life applications? It makes a difference in the type of applications they are used in. The first generation of sodium ion batteries can be used in various transportation electrification scenarios, especially in regions with extremely low temperatures where their outstanding advantages become obvious and can also be flexibly adapted to the application needs of all scenarios in the field of energy storage. Now we see several new batteries being researched in the laboratory, but it often takes five or even 10 years. to reach the market or will be launched soon in the US and China and also a large battery company, see ATL recently announced that they will begin production in

2023

.

Still, sodium ion batteries will eventually become the main option . Lithium-ion batteries will most likely be used in high-end vehicles, but for everyday use we don't need the expensive lithium. This is as big a revolution as the electric car itself, as we have finally found a cheaper and more viable battery option. When do you think we will do it? start seeing sodium ion batteries on the market anyway, that's just some food for thought. Thank you very much for watching and for your support of our channel as always, if you enjoyed our video please leave us a like, share the video, subscribe to the channel and sound off.

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