Inside Climate News: Why General Motors Is Betting on Sodium-Ion Batteries

Peak Energy announced (in June) that it has entered a new partnership with General Motors to manufacture sodium-ion batteries for energy storage systems. Sodium-ion batteries use super abundant sodium not lithium and thus are lower fire-risk. Under the partnership with GM, the automaker will develop sodium-ion batteries in its Michigan battery lab, and Peak will be able to use them in its energy storage systems. Kurt Kelty, GM’s vice president for battery and sustainability, said in a news release that his company believes “sodium-ion will be a defining chemistry for grid-scale energy storage systems.” Read ON.