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by Yeahsureok 1144 days ago
No mention of CATL releasing sodium based batteries this year? Just their dropping of lithium battery prices?
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Sodium batteries will have any effect only in a few years. So this is mostly the case of increased production in anticipation of stronger demand that has not realized.

The latter is not necessary an indication of a less demand for batteries. There were a lot of progress recently in increase of the energy density in mass-produced batteries, and that may contributed to lessening of the demand.