As climate change continues to negatively affect the world, various companies like Apple, Google, and others are taking the necessary steps to reduce their carbon footprint, and eventually achieve carbon neutrality. We have also seen a huge rise in demand for lithium batteries as more companies try to enter the EV market and develop battery-powered machines instead of non-renewable-energy-based products. This has created a shortage of supply for lithium-ion batteries in the market. Citing this, Bluetti, a world-leading manufacturer of solar energy products, has now developed the world’s first sodium-ion solar generator.
Bluetti, a company that manufactures home power stations like generators, photovoltaic panels, and other such products, started working on sodium-based battery technology to integrate it into its next-gen power stations. Instead of developing lithium-based generators, it has turned to sodium as both metals have similar chemical properties. Moreover, compared to lithium, there is over a thousand times more sodium available in the Earth’s crust.
That is thanks to the 3,000W solar input capability of the generator that can intake more power from the Sun in a short period of time, using its 6,000W swift AC + PV dual-charging technology. There will be four 20A plugs and one 30A L14-30 output port to connect various home appliances.
However, there are some limitations of the sodium-ion technology compared to lithium-ion. For instance, the NA300 provides a maximum capacity of 3,000 Wh, which is significantly less than the 5,100 Wh capacity of the company’s own lithium-ion-based EP500 Pro generator. Although both the generators are of the same size, the sodium-ion-based NA300 comes with less capacity.
