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Originally posted by Quamera:
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szaba, I rarely watch videos, I would much prefer to read so I can easily go back over anything that is doubtful, misleading or needs more understanding however I did watch that one twice just to make sure and it's obvious that you didn't. anything about a Sodium battery except in the written headline. It spends the whole 9 minutes extolling the virtues of the BYD LFP Blade battery (that has been around for years) and their newish small car the Seagull. According to the blurb it is a "quality" small 4 door hatch that only costs US$11K because of BYD's vertical integration and efficient production at scale.
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The story about BYD and sodium batteries is not new. BYD announced in 2022, at highest lithium prices, that their next-to-come Seagull model was going to be powered by sodium batteries. The Seagull was finally launched early 2024 with traditional lithium batteries. Evidently, the decision to go with sodium was due to costs and not to performance.73121668
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