• rumba@lemmy.zip
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    9 hours ago

    TBF, Something in the vague range of the battery they’ve been promising is actively in development in a bunch of skunkworks, but it’s still a long way off if it ever comes to fruition. If they did manage to make a sodium ion battery, it would have been a huge deal.

    But they didn’t, and when it does happen, it won’t need to be used to sell motorcycles.

    • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works
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      7 hours ago

      If they did manage to make a sodium ion battery, it would have been a huge deal.

      CATL already have a sodium ion battery they’re prepping to market.

      There were also a couple other manufacturers that were in a similar position 6 months ago before lithium prices dropped and drove them into bankruptcy.

      Announcing sodium ion batteries for consumers was enturely realistic. The issue is that Donut Labs claimed they had sodium solid-state batteries, which are years if not decades away