{"id":239764,"date":"2026-06-27T03:10:41","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T08:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/this-sodium-battery-from-china-matched-tesla-in-a-surprising-head-to-head-test"},"modified":"2026-06-27T03:10:41","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T08:10:41","slug":"this-sodium-battery-from-china-matched-tesla-in-a-surprising-head-to-head-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/this-sodium-battery-from-china-matched-tesla-in-a-surprising-head-to-head-test","title":{"rendered":"This Sodium Battery From China Matched Tesla in a Surprising Head-to-Head Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-sodium-battery-from-china-matched-tesla-in-a-surprising-head-to-head-test.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new study found that a commercial sodium-ion battery from China rivals Tesla\u2019s batteries in manufacturing quality and several key performance benchmarks.<\/p>\n<p>With improvements to cold-weather charging and energy density, sodium-ion batteries could become a more affordable alternative for electric vehicles and grid-scale energy storage.<\/p>\n<p>Sodium-ion battery shows tesla-like quality in new study.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study found that a commercial sodium-ion battery from China rivals Tesla\u2019s batteries in manufacturing quality and several key performance benchmarks. With improvements to cold-weather charging and energy density, sodium-ion batteries could become a more affordable alternative for electric vehicles and grid-scale energy storage. Sodium-ion battery shows tesla-like quality in new study.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239764","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}