{"id":619847,"date":"2023-11-28T12:26:36","date_gmt":"2023-11-28T06:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=619847"},"modified":"2023-11-28T12:34:53","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T07:04:53","slug":"salt-in-batteries-battery-giants-invest-in-sodium-based-technology-signalling-potential-disruption-in-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/salt-in-batteries-battery-giants-invest-in-sodium-based-technology-signalling-potential-disruption-in-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Salt in Batteries: Battery giants invest in Sodium-based technology, signalling potential disruption in industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Battery giants are starting to put their money on new sodium-based technology, a sign that there could be yet another shakeup in the industry that\u2019s crucial for the energy transition.<\/p>\n<p>Sodium \u2014 found in rock salts and brines around the globe \u2014 has the potential to make inroads into energy storage and electric vehicles because it\u2019s cheaper and far more abundant than lithium, which currently dominates batteries. But while chemically and structurally similar, sodium has yet to be used on a large scale, partly due to the better range and performance of similarly sized lithium cells.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Battery giants are starting to put their money on new sodium-based technology, a sign that there could be yet another shakeup in the industry that\u2019s crucial for the energy transition. Sodium \u2014 found in rock salts and brines around the globe \u2014 has the potential to make inroads into energy storage and electric vehicles because it\u2019s cheaper and far more abundant than lithium, which currently dominates batteries. But while chemically and structurally similar, sodium has yet to be used on a large scale, partly due to the better range and performance of similarly sized lithium cells.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,239,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-619847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619847","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=619847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}