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Partnership Targets Sodium-Ion Batteries

by Alex Scott
February 15, 2016 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 94, Issue 7

Faradion, an English sodium-ion battery start-up, has formed a partnership with AGM Batteries, a Scottish lithium-ion ­battery maker. The firms intend to engineer complete sodium-ion battery cells for use in commercial batteries. AGM runs a 4,000-m2 battery facility in Caithness, Scotland. Sodium-ion batteries could be safer and cost around 30% less than their lithium-ion equivalent, Faradion says.

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