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127 America's First Sodium-Ion Battery Gigafactory Announced. Cost: $1.4 Billion

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 11/10/2024 03:34 EDT

America's First Sodium-Ion Battery Gigafactory Announced. Cost: $1.4 Billion

Sodium-ion batteries are cheaper than lithium-ion batteries — and they're also more environmentally friendly. And "In the past few years, sodium-ion battery production has increased in the United States," reports the Washington Post, with a new factory planned to manufacture them "in the same way as lithium-ion batteries, just with different ingredients. Instead of using expensive materials like lithium, nickel and cobalt, these will be made of sodium, iron and manganese..."

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