The company has said future applications for sodium-ion batteries may also include electric vehicles and grid energy storage.Įven before the work on the manufacturing plant gets underway, both companies say there are extraordinary advantages to their hook-up. In addition to effectively solving the supply chain issues associated with lithium batteries, they’d also be far less costly to produce. However, they have one great advantage over their lithium predecessors - sodium is naturally abundant almost everywhere, whereas lithium battery components like cobalt, copper, nickel and lithium itself are often difficult to source. Sodium-ion batteries are rechargeable batteries analogous to the lithium-ion battery most people are already familiar with. Natron Energy Inc., a Santa Clara, California-based maker of sodium-ion batteries, and Clarios International Inc., a Milwaukee, Wisconsin-based maker of low-voltage advanced battery technologies, have agreed to retool the latter’s so-called Meadowbrook facility and start mass producing sodium-ion batteries there starting in 2023. A city perhaps best known today for being the home of the much-photographed Big Red Lighthouse that stands between the channel linking Lake Macatawa to Lake Michigan, will soon be home to the world’s first mass-scale sodium-ion battery plant.

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