New Sodium-Ion Battery Could Charge An Electric Vehicle In Seconds, Not Minutes

Source: Clean Technica

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The electric vehicle revolution has barely gotten under way, and already the goalposts for charging times are moving. New research indicates that sodium-ion EV batteries could charge up in seconds, not minutes. That not only races past the best lithium-ion technology on the market today, it also beats gas and diesel fuels at their own game.

Lithium-ion batteries have been the energy storage technology of choice for electric vehicle stakeholders ever since the early 2000s, but a shift is coming. Sodium-ion battery technology is one new technology to emerge.

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