{"id":241180,"date":"2026-07-19T04:12:46","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T09:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/beyond-lithium-how-sodiumion-batteries-could-change-the-world"},"modified":"2026-07-19T04:12:46","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T09:12:46","slug":"beyond-lithium-how-sodiumion-batteries-could-change-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/beyond-lithium-how-sodiumion-batteries-could-change-the-world","title":{"rendered":"Beyond lithium: how sodiumion batteries could change the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/beyond-lithium-how-sodiumion-batteries-could-change-the-world.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The lithium-ion battery is the beating heart of the modern world. It powers eight billion mobile phones, hundreds of millions of laptops and rapidly growing fleets of electric cars and energy-storage banks. But there\u2019s a new contender breaking into the battery market.<\/p>\n<p>Batteries based on sodium promise to be cheaper, safer and much more environmentally friendly than lithium-ion cells. And this year could mark the start of the sodium era.<\/p>\n<p>In April, Chinese firm CATL \u2014 the world\u2019s largest battery producer \u2014 announced that it will start mass-producing sodium-ion batteries before the end of 2026. CATL, which is headquartered in Ningde, added that it had signed deals to sell the batteries both to a car manufacturer and to a provider of energy-storage stations for electricity grids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lithium-ion battery is the beating heart of the modern world. It powers eight billion mobile phones, hundreds of millions of laptops and rapidly growing fleets of electric cars and energy-storage banks. But there\u2019s a new contender breaking into the battery market. Batteries based on sodium promise to be cheaper, safer and much more environmentally [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,45,1512,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-finance","category-mobile-phones","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241180","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}