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[–] bastion@feddit.nl 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Lower price and longer life.

50,000 complete cycles. That's 136 years of complete empty to complete full. Most of these will outlast their mounting hardware.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Sure. Drop them in budget cars, and when the cars are ready to EOL, move the batteries to energy storage.

[–] bastion@feddit.nl 2 points 3 months ago

Yep. And decommissioning time? The sodium is all recyclable without major effort, and the Prussian Blue analogs can be discarded.