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lebuffontoday at 12:50 AM1 replyview on HN

The other big reason is the longevity. LFP life span gives you about 2000-5000 cycles depending on where your application can't tolerate the capacity reduction. Sodium Ion can go to 10,000 cycles (27 years) with a 70% capacity reduction at that life.

This makes financing a large grid scale storage plant look way better to the bean counters because the investment continues to work and make money, after the 5 year amortization, typical of a corporate investment. This will be the kicker IMHO.


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s1artibartfasttoday at 1:53 AM

Does it really look more favorable? My understanding was that such far future returns had minimal Net Present Value

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