China develops iron battery 80 times cheaper than lithium that can last 16 years. It provides a budget-friendly, high-endurance answer for the world’s massive energy storage needs.

Kid Rock is working on a new battery. Game changer.

For grid-storage they may very well be...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_redox_flow_battery
is e.g. in place in Sacramaneto, CA with a storage of 2 GWh and a maximum power of 200 MW.
For grid-storage durability and ovrerall cost efficiency are more important than energy density so I expect redox flow batteries to overtake lithium ion based batteries there.

Ehh I follow the battery news well enough to know it's different this time.

The way you can tell is that it isn't coming from the MIT press release department.

Magic is an understanding.

To be fair, neither do i. Or probably most people. But he fires people who do.

Less?

Iron batteries are big and heavy. Not good for portable applications.

https://www.intelmarketresearch.com/ion-exchange-membranes-for-vanadium-redox-flow-battery-market-41675

This is just a shallow, cynical, anti-intellectual remark.

Sodium ion batteries are already hitting production.

Iron flow and vanadium redox batteries also already exist in the real world.

Grid and residential battery installations are happening at a rapidly accelerating pace.

Lithium ion battery prices have dropped something like 90% over the last 15 years.

Battery technology is improving at dramatic rate, both lithium ion and non lithium ion solutions.

the article literally links to how BYD is putting this stuff into production https://interestingengineering.com/energy/catl-ev-battery-7-minute-charge

You seem

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Bitter

Weird how Americans have such poor reading comprehension. Oh wait, I guess it's your education system.

They seem to have tackled the issue of dendrite forming.
That would reduce maintenance on iron redox flow batteries sigificantly if true.

So you did not read the article. At all.

Spamoflage

I'm starting to see that China may have a large presence on lemmy. It would make sense with the .ml groups. You can see a lot of pro China stuff here plus lemmy is a generator against things like AI which benefits China.