{"id":435757,"date":"2021-09-14T08:44:05","date_gmt":"2021-09-14T03:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=435757"},"modified":"2021-09-14T09:58:03","modified_gmt":"2021-09-14T04:28:03","slug":"this-battery-idea-from-1970s-could-help-evs-take-lead-in-auto-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/this-battery-idea-from-1970s-could-help-evs-take-lead-in-auto-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"This battery idea from 1970s could help EVs take lead in auto industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s no shortage of excitement for electric vehicle battery startups or multibillion dollar investments in the industry, as companies, backers and scientists look for the winning play. China, though, is already moving on to the next leg in the race \u2014 one that isn\u2019t dependent on a big, bold breakthrough \u2014 with sodium-ion batteries. Done right, this technology could lead to widespread adoption in a market largely dependent on subsidies and where EV sales are still a fraction of all cars. <\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., or CATL, the world\u2019s largest battery manufacturer, unveiled its latest product in July \u2014 a sodium-ion battery. The following month, China\u2019s Ministry of Industry and Information<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s no shortage of excitement for electric vehicle battery startups or multibillion dollar investments in the industry, as companies, backers and scientists look for the winning play. China, though, is already moving on to the next leg in the race \u2014 one that isn\u2019t dependent on a big, bold breakthrough \u2014 with sodium-ion batteries. Done right, this technology could lead to widespread adoption in a market largely dependent on subsidies and where EV sales are still a fraction of all cars. China\u2019s Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., or CATL, the world\u2019s largest battery manufacturer, unveiled its latest product in July \u2014 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-435757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}