Hithium’s recent sodium-ion battery and BESS product launch is the latest in a long line of announcements showing an inflection point for the battery chemistry. But how do its new products compare to other sodium-ion systems out there, and to its own LFP offering?  

ESS Tech Inc highlighted the potential of its recent partnership with Alsym Energy and the advancement of its sodium-ion technology in its recent financial report.

In this deep-dive, we go through and analyse all of the technical features and claims of CATL’s new sodium-ion grid-scale BESS product, including its ‘millisecond-level self-healing’.

ESS Tech Inc is deploying sodium-ion BESS in the US with Juniper Energy, while CATL deploys its sodium-ion technology in Eastern Europe with Solarpro.

We caught up with the CCO of Netherlands-headquartered startup Moonwatt at last month’s Smarter E Europe trade show in Munich for a video interview.