JAC Motors, a Volkswagen-backed Chinese automaker, unveiled the first mass-produced EV with a sodium-ion battery through its new Yiwei brand. Although sodium-ion battery tech has a lower density than lithium-ion, its lower costs, simpler and more abundant supplies and superior cold-weather performance could help accelerate mass EV adoption.
  • JATth@lemmy.worldEnglish
    212·
    11 months ago

    Any new battery technology news needs to be taken with a grain of salt. They are highly likely over-hyped and the actually realized products will have more problems than the current established tech initially.

    • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
      62·
      11 months ago

      Any new battery technology news needs to be taken with grain of salt.

      Well yeah, it’s sodium.

    • graymess@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      11 months ago

      Sure. I’m in no rush to replace my car with one of these, but it’s a great thing that this technology is already in production. With these actually going into real cars that people can buy and drive, we’ll get more data so that any serious issues will hopefully be identified and addressed in the next generation.