Just to clarify, the article states these are for low voltage systems inside cars, and not powering cars themselves.
Which makes more sense as the density of Na-ion is ~30% less that Li-ion.
The auto industry does not have a choice. They need batteries and will not get them from European suppliers, as they cannot deliver the same cost and quality AND they need the growing wealthy population there to keep their bottom line up.
Maybe 5-10 years down the line there will be enough forcing of Chinese battery suppliers to open factories in Europe to reverse this, but it is not going to happen soon. Maybe the tarrifs will speed this up, maybe not.
Do the economics of nuclear make sense though? A quick search showed around $5k/kW capacity. That's $5 billion per GW. Then there's permit and build times on top of that.
Surely renewables + distributed storage is going to become key?
Is there already extensive precedence of undersea, long distance power distribution? I could imagine the losses would be outrageous at that distance.
Bluetooth and the 2.4 GHz ISM band is not electricity and is highly resilient to moderate noise over short distances. Problems are usually caused by hardware related issues.
I would argue all connected cars have become that. If you're buying anything newer than 2015, in all likelihood it's a spyware filled go-kart.
From a business perspective it makes sense in the same way many European teams have shifted their pre-season abroad.
It increases global interest in the league leading to increased revenue, and they get to destroy the planet just that little bit more.
In my opinion, the decay of football to the pure Americab sports franchise system has been rapid in the last years... maybe that's just my perspective though.
To be fair, this is pretty much the story of any right wing politician too.. at least this girl (arguably) didn't ruin the lives of millions.
Not linked to your identity...
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Identifiers..
This seems contradictory. I'll avoid them for now, thanks!
I'm curous about these, how is the privacy on the apps? Having my data mined from my lightbulbs is my last consideration against taking the step tbh
Ah wow, I had current lfp at around 220-250 but that looks like it's on the R&D lines and not in series production yet
I guess with the sheer amount of research being lumped into Lithium batteries at the moment, I would be surprised if it is overtaken by anything short term at least in the auto space. Let's see...