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Real estate company Country Garden cross-border investment in sodium batteries, new energy vehicles will no longer be the "world" of lithium batteries?

 Last Update: 2022-04-29
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[ Hot Focus of Chemical Machinery and Equipment Network ] Recently, the automobile circle has been "lively"
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First, the rise in oil prices, 95 gasoline will fully enter the era of 9 yuan, attracting a lot of oil car owners to "envy" the owners of new energy vehicles; second, there are more and more "patterns" of batteries in new energy vehicles.
Batteries, magnesium batteries, and ×× batteries are emerging in an endless stream, and the well-known real estate company Country Garden has also invested in one
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Chemical machinery and equipment network hotspots focus on chemical machinery and equipment

On March 4, 2022, Na-ion battery cutting-edge Zhongna Energy announced the completion of a new round of financing led by Country Garden, which will be used to expand R&D and mass production technical teams
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According to the data, Zhongna Energy is one of the earliest companies in China to promote the industrialization of sodium-ion batteries.
It has successfully developed a complete set of preparation technologies for the cathode materials of three types of sodium-ion batteries.
It is expected to complete the delivery of the first-generation mass production products within this year.

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Previously, it was only a sodium-ion battery in concept, and it has been accelerating its "realization"
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　　In fact, research on sodium-ion batteries has been around since the 1970s
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However, in the context of the current widening gap in raw materials, this technology is regarded as an effective solution to alleviate the price increase of lithium batteries, and is even more highly expected by all parties
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The domestic power battery "big coffee" CATL took the lead in laying out the field, and announced the first generation of products in July last year
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According to the Ningde era:

　　The energy density of this sodium-ion cell can reach 160 Wh/kg, it can be fully charged by 80% in 15 minutes at room temperature, and can achieve a discharge retention rate of more than 90% in an environment of minus 20 degrees Celsius
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　　Only from a technical analysis, experts believe that the chemical properties of sodium and lithium are very similar, and they are cheap and have large reserves.
Compared with lithium batteries, they can help companies reduce costs better
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In addition, sodium battery charging is not only faster, but also less affected by temperature.
It should be known that the problems of slow charging and low-temperature battery life have always been important reasons for hindering the promotion of electric vehicles
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On the other hand, the manufacturing method of sodium batteries and lithium batteries is basically the same, and the production process does not require much improvement, and even the mode of lithium batteries can be copied
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　　The mass production conditions are "ready for everything".
Has the "Dongfeng" of sodium-ion batteries come?

　　In the eyes of industry insiders, there is another key to the commercial use of sodium-ion batteries - electrode materials with high safety, long life and low cost
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Moreover, the current sodium batteries are more like a supplement to lithium batteries than an effective replacement, because the former is more suitable for medium and low-speed electric vehicles and large-scale energy storage, and the market overlap rate with the latter is not high
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　　Of course, the heads of relevant companies are optimistic about this.
They believe that the large-scale production of sodium-ion batteries is advancing steadily, and no obvious bottleneck has yet been encountered, and sodium-ion batteries are positioned as the most economical and high-safety energy storage batteries.
With both the advantages of lead-acid battery price and lithium battery performance, it will quickly seize the market with its own characteristics in the future
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　　At the same time, national policies have also injected a "stimulant" into the development of sodium-ion batteries
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For example, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has made it clear that new batteries such as lithium-ion batteries and sodium-ion batteries are "ballast stones to promote the development of the new energy industry"
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It is expected that with the increase of industrial investment and the increasingly mature technology, cost-effective sodium batteries are expected to open up broad development prospects in the field of energy storage
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