Great News..... Sodium Ion Batteries Are Coming

[Yellow Buddy]

I’ve always wondered if a battery “swap” was possible for Lightnings if better battery chemistry is discovered.

I know on the Teslas they are upgradable, both hardware and software has to be updated for those. The biggest concern is the suspension if the overall weight ends up changing.

Theoretically, the Lightnings should be even easier. As long as voltage can be matched and you swap all the modules at the same time, it should be minimal. The rest is software for the truck to recognize the capacity and state of charge.

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[Lytning]

Talk, promises, and YouTube videos are easy and cheap.
Real world products and great customer support are hard to do and often expensive.
I will believe it when I see it.

 

[Dfair]

Na-ion is honestly better suited to fixed storage. Not that it can't go in vehicles, but it has got some ugly drawbacks in vehicular applications. The key one that makes it a poor choice for vehicles is bad round trip efficiency, especially at anything higher than trickle charging C rates. Na-ion will take some pressure off of lithium production as it scales into fixed storage, though, so it's still worth the R&D in my opinion.

Cringe at the link to Sam Evans though. His actual research to hype ratio is basically zero. To the point where he hyped an obvious perpetual motion machine type scam...

I admit to not knowing much about this, but I saw that CATL shows this battery as having a 5C charge rating, which is pretty good.

 

[MyDaughtersCar]

I actually met them on a road trip last year. Based on what they told me then, they are taking their time to perfect a lot in R&D before releasing the final product. The timeline still fits. I told them I found that encouraging since most companies rush to make a dime and then the problems show up. Fix the problems first and the final product is a dream. The biggest difference is, with most companies, there's competition trying to do the same thing and will beat you to the punch. In this case, no one else is doing it yet.

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