Sodium is an excellent candidate for building batteries. It ironizes easily and parts with its electron in no time. In fact, sodium iron batteries were studied extensively during the sixties and the seventies. Lithium iron batteries took over the world, and we use them everywhere to day,. But there are new challenges on the horizon.
In today's episode for 26th January 2022 we see why Reliance paid $135 million to acquire Faradion - a UK based company that's a pioneer in Sodium Ion batteries.