{"id":21246,"date":"2025-08-13T00:02:57","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T07:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=21246"},"modified":"2025-08-15T22:01:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T05:01:21","slug":"2025-08-13-catl-produces-naxtra-sodium-ion-batteries-nearly-as-good-as-lfp-batteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=21246","title":{"rendered":"2025-08-13 CATL Produces Naxtra Sodium Ion Batteries Nearly As Good As LFP Batteries"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Matt &#8216;Undecided&#8217; Farrell YT Channel<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How CATL Made Batteries 90% Cheaper (And What Happens Next)\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Wf84NJSiAeU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From print OCR Quote:\u00a0 &#8220;&#8221;The first production under the Naxtra brand will be of a new sodium-ion battery with an energy density of 175 watt-hours per kilogram, nearly equivalent to the lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries popularly used in electric vehicles and grid energy storage systems.<br><br>Sodium-ion batteries may have a cost advantage over lithium-ion batteries as the technology and supply chain develop, said Ouyang Chuying, co-president for R&amp;D at CATL<br><br>CATL&#8217;s billionaire founder Robin Zeng has said he sees sodium-ion batteries potentially replacing up to half the market for LFP batteries that CATL now dominates.<br><br>Besides Naxtra, CATL also launched the second generation of its Shenxing fast-charging battery, which it said can enable a 520 km driving range with a five-minute charge, and reach 80% charging from 0% in 15 minutes in cold weather.<br><br>More than 67 new electric vehicle models will be powered by the Shenxing battery this year, said CATL&#8217;s Chief Technology Officer Gao Huan at an event in Shanghai, without specifying how many would be equipped with the first or second generation version.&#8221;&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to another YouTube channel (Electrified IIRC) the Naxtra batteries also have lithium ion cells in them so they are hybrid, both sodium and lithium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt &#8216;Undecided&#8217; Farrell YT Channel From print OCR Quote:\u00a0 &#8220;&#8221;The first production under the Naxtra brand will be of a new sodium-ion battery with an energy density of 175 watt-hours per kilogram, nearly equivalent to the lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries popularly used in electric vehicles and grid energy storage systems. Sodium-ion batteries may have<a href=\"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=21246\"> <\/p>\n<p> (Read More&#8230;)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[144,1601,2046,356,722,1267],"tags":[4407,4406,4405,1268,4404,1151],"class_list":["post-21246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-battery-or-cell","category-biography","category-lfp","category-lithium","category-newsmedia","category-sodium-ion","tag-000-cycles","tag-10-2","tag-175-wh-kg","tag-catl","tag-naxtra","tag-sodium-ion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21246"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21256,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21246\/revisions\/21256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}