[felix_n]

Somewhat tangential to the main point of the article, but wasn't there some big news somewhat recently about sodium-ion batteries reaching "close-enough" parity with lithium-ion batteries for EVs? Did I get hopeful based on false pretenses?

[slaw]

The news was sodium batteries will be available in 2023.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33750955