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    6 months ago

    Unfortunately what’s shipping today seems it would offer maybe half that.

    For the batteries that were announced this past week, a larger-than-refrigerator-sized cabinet held a capacity of around 15kWh.

    Around half the energy density by mass of Lithium batteries, and in the order of a sixth of the density by volume.

    Now if only we could come up with a system where your car could be charged while stopped at traffic lights, we might be onto a winner (:

    Considering however that the price of sodium is around 1-2% that of lithium, I expect we will see significant R&D and those numbers quickly start to improve.