NexPower V3 hybrid battery unveil - Sodium-ion battery

Yikes, so instead of a proper BMS that is made for Li-Ion, it 'averages' modules...
What about balancing the differences in cells, like a proper BMS?

- Do Sodium packs need balancing?
- Are there any current consumer items using Sodium cells?
- What is the Self-Discharge Rate? That is important data for some. You don't want to come back to a bricked Prius after a 2 month vaca...

Thanks for the informative reply!

I've always been an early adopter, driving EV since '14 and nothing but the most fuel efficient Gassers before that.
I'm not replacing my original pack in my '10 Gen3 until it's begging for it.
Not like the guy above swapping out many packs for no good reason, other than 'Research'.
But I'm now aware of this Sodium chemistry. But not enough to do research. I'll 'Wait and See'.

 

I don't think that using lithium has to be an ethical issue. It can be recycled almost indefinitely, and lithium can be obtained ethically, unlike something like cobalt, currently.

 

Sadly, humans these days have been so disconnected with their planet's living systems that folks like yourself see no loss in destroying those living systems that our very lives depend on. Y'all have all kinds of silly ways to excuse any and all destruction of the planet simply because of a lack of education and information:

There's huge ecosystems, especially rare plant communities threatened with extinction because of lithium mines! Every country in the world started targeting their lithium resources once the transition from fossil fuels to Electric battery storage got robust enough. And Sodium-Ion has the potential to destroy those investments before many of those ecosystems get destroyed.

 

An electrical engineer that blew the whistle on the soother scam and had direct experience creating custom lithium bms systems for Hondas had his expert posts erased from Priuschat by management.

 

mmmm wonder why that was....