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by anoncow 1759 days ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium-ion_battery
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This research has been ongoing for a long time:

Development of the sodium-ion battery took place side-by-side with that of the lithium-ion battery in the 1970s and early 1980s. However, by the 1990s, it had become clear that lithium-ion batteries had more commercial promise, causing interest in sodium-ion batteries to decline.