JAC Motors, a Volkswagen-backed Chinese automaker, unveiled the first mass-produced EV with a sodium-ion battery through its new Yiwei brand. Although sodium-ion battery tech has a lower density than lithium-ion, its lower costs, simpler and more abundant supplies and superior cold-weather performance could help accelerate mass EV adoption.
Wait how is this the first? Didn’t the th!nk city have a molten sodium battery years ago?
yes it was a sodium battery, but it had different chemistry. This one does not need to be molten to work!