Why China Could Dominate the Next Big Advance in Batteries

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2. Sodium batteries are still a bit experimental.

Although, thanks to biases in NFS funding, China owns a number of very significant patents on sodium batteries.

Ask for a sodium-based grant, well, that's not the future of EV and proto-ESG. Too experimental, we know the future.

Work on sodium batteries has been backgrounded because of a crisis. And that bias might lead to a far worse crisis.

Yet, you know, not all the bugs are worked out of Na+ batteries and in the end the energy density might mean it's DOA.


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