As battery development in the automotive space continues, the ubiquitously available sodium purports to make gains in cost, safety, scalability and sustainability.
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Led out of the University of St Andrews and working in partnership with Faradion (a company established in 2011 to develop and bring sodium-ion battery technology to market), a wide network of industrial collaborators, five UK universities and other overseas institutes, the Nexgenna project aims to ‘accelerate the development of sodium-ion battery technology by taking a multi-disciplinary approach incorporating fundamental chemistry right through to scale-up and cell manufacturing. Its aim is to put on the path to commercialisation a sodium-ion battery with high performance, low cost, that has a long cycle life and is safe.
Lead investigator Professor John Irvine told Automotive World, “Many of us in the [scientific] community thought lithium was always going to be more effective [than other elements]. [Yet, the performance of] sodium is rapidly becoming comparable to some of the best lithium technologies. [What’s more, with sodium] you can avoid using cobalt, you can avoid lithium.”
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