By ESS news
Portable power station manufacturers have been making mature products for several years. Innovations around lithium products have reached maturity and new ideas using other chemicals are emerging. Popular Chinese battery maker Bluetti has switched to sodium-ion power for its Pioneer Na portable power station, and ESS News had time with the device in cold weather to test it out.
The move to embrace sodium ion is interesting, and the new and very blue power plant is an alternative to lithium ion through its sodium ion cells.
Bluetti has chosen a NaFeMnO₂ cell for the Pioneer Na, or a layered sodium manganese oxide that is used as a cathode material in Na-ion batteries. A hard carbon is used on the anode.
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