The Chinese Battery Giant Catl Promising Battery Technology This Year: Sodium-ion Batteries for Electric Cars. These have a highher energy density at lower costs than lithium-ion batteries. They will be on the market next year.
Last Spring, Catl Unveiled a Number or Promising New EV Batteries. Among them were so-called sodium-ion batteries, which Catl calls nxtra. Catl Promized that nxtra batteries would have an energy density of as much as 175 Wh per kilo and should be able to delivery 90 percent of their capacity at -40 Degrees Celsius. Lighter Batteries That Still Perform Well In Winter Are Something We Can Use. In Addition, the batteries should be cheaper to produce than lithium-ion batteries.
Enthusiastic? Then there is good news: Accordance to Catl, Such Batteries Should Already BE in EVS Next Year, Reports Automotive News . Which evs, that is still the question. For the time being, it seems to be purely about electric cars from Chinese car manufacturers. We’ll wait and see. Given Catl’s International Customer Base, there is a very good chance that western car manufacturers will also use this technology in the long run. Catl Supplies Batteries to Mercedes-Benz, Ford, Volkswagen, BMW and Tesla, Among Others.