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Switching to Sodium-ion Battery for your Ride!
As a car or motorcycle lover, are you always looking for innovative technologies that can enhance the driving experience? Recently, a new chemical called sodium ion has appeared in the public’s field of vision, which has a good application scenario as an alternative to electric vehicles and starting batteries. Let’s take a look at this new technology now!
What’s a starting battery?
Starting batteries, also called SLI (starting, lighting, ignition) batteries, provide bursts of power to turn over the engine during ignition. They must deliver high cranking amps even in cold conditions to reliably start gasoline or diesel engines. Flooded lead-acid batteries have long fulfilled this role, but new options are emerging.
How is it different from a storage battery?
Stationary batteries like those used for home energy storage have different requirements than starter batteries. They need high energy density and durability over thousands of cycles rather than high power.
Why choose sodium-ion for replacement?
Sodium-ion batteries contain sodium metal instead of lithium. Due to the abundance and low price of sodium resources, it can save costs. And they also have excellent thermal stability and safety. When replacing lead-acid batteries with equivalent sodium ion batteries, they can start the car engine well in winter. During use, sodium ion batteries can continue to charge vehicles thousands of times.
How to choose the right starting battery?
When choosing a new starting battery, first consider your vehicle make and model and select a battery with the same or higher cold cranking amps (CCA) rating as the replacement.
*CCA (Cold Cranking Amps): is the industry standard measure of a starting battery’s ability to reliably start an engine in the coldest weather conditions. It represents the maximum current the battery can supply for 30 seconds at 0 degrees Fahrenheit (-18 degrees Celsius).
A lower CCA increases the risk of a vehicle failing to start in extreme cold, while a higher CCA ensures reliable ignition in severe winter conditions.
Sodium-ion batteries have a higher CCA, which provides ample current surge capability for cold starting of a vehicle, comparable to the current surge capability provided by older lead-acid batteries. Proper CCA is critical for starting batteries in cold climates.
In conclusion, sodium-ion batteries show great potential as lead-acid replacements for vehicle and marine starting applications. Their value proposition of low-cost, long-lasting performance makes them worth consideration next time your ride needs a new starter pack.
If you want to buy high CCA sodium starter batteries for your ride, check the batteries:
