{"id":195065,"date":"2024-08-23T09:26:50","date_gmt":"2024-08-23T14:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/first-american-sodium-ion-battery-factory-will-make-cells-with-lifespan-of-50000-cycles-that-charge-in-10-minutes"},"modified":"2024-08-23T09:26:50","modified_gmt":"2024-08-23T14:26:50","slug":"first-american-sodium-ion-battery-factory-will-make-cells-with-lifespan-of-50000-cycles-that-charge-in-10-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/first-american-sodium-ion-battery-factory-will-make-cells-with-lifespan-of-50000-cycles-that-charge-in-10-minutes","title":{"rendered":"First American sodium-ion battery factory will make cells with lifespan of 50,000 cycles that charge in 10 minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/first-american-sodium-ion-battery-factory-will-make-cells-with-lifespan-of-50000-cycles-that-charge-in-10-minutes2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Built by Natron Energy, the Edgecombe County facility is planned for 24 GWh of annual capacity, which would turn Natron from a startup into the first sodium-ion battery production juggernaut on US soil.<\/p>\n<p>Sodium-ion batteries are cheaper, safer, with much longer lifespan and faster charging than conventional Li-ion packs.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese companies are already using them in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.notebookcheck.net\/Huge-battery-storage-system-with-solid-state-accumulators-connected-to-the-power-grid.858860.0.html\" target=\"_self\" class=\"\">grid-level<\/a> energy storage systems of local utilities, to balance their renewable energy mix. Some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.notebookcheck.net\/First-electric-car-with-cheap-sodium-ion-battery-offers-157-miles-of-range-as-it-appears-out-of-a-VW-partnership.697298.0.html\" target=\"_self\" class=\"\">sodium-ion battery<\/a> packs are even making their way into electric vehicles there, even though the chemistry offers lower energy density than Li-ion batteries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Built by Natron Energy, the Edgecombe County facility is planned for 24 GWh of annual capacity, which would turn Natron from a startup into the first sodium-ion battery production juggernaut on US soil. Sodium-ion batteries are cheaper, safer, with much longer lifespan and faster charging than conventional Li-ion packs. Chinese companies are already using them [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1497,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-energy","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}