Top 8 Sodium ion Battery Companies

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Top 8 Sodium ion Battery Manufacturers in the World

1. Faradion Limited

Established Time	2011
Headquarters location	Sheffield, United Kingdom
Website	https://faradion.co.uk/

Faradion was founded in 2011 by Dr. Jerry Barker, Dr. Chris Wright and Ashwin Kumaraswamy to develop and bring sodium ion technology to market. Faradion has developed a strategic, broad and scalable intellectual property portfolio, including a total of 21 patent families covering sodium ion technology.

Unlike Natron Energy, which studies aqueous sodium-ion batteries, Faradion develops sodium ion batteries with organic liquid electrolytes. Faradion has more patents in sodium batteries than any other competing sodium-ion battery company, which could solidify its position as the market leader in non-aqueous liquid sodium ion batteries.

Faradion has developed a strategic, broad and broad intellectual property portfolio covering many aspects of sodium-ion battery technology. The intellectual property portfolio includes a number of jointly held patents, including 21 existing patent families (including 8 granted patents), focused on three key areas of sodium ion technology:

• Battery materials: including cathode, anode and electrolyte materials and preparation methods
• Battery infrastructure
• Battery safety and transportation

2. Natron Energy Inc.

Established Time	2012
Headquarters location	California, United States
Website	https://natron.energy/

Colin Wessells founded Natron Energy (hereinafter referred to as Natron) in 2012 as a doctoral student at Stanford University. The company was founded with the vision of providing high-safety, high-power batteries. Developed by an ever-expanding team of scientists and engineers,

Natron now operates a pilot production line for advanced ion-sodium batteries in Santa Clara, California. In 2020, Natron successfully launched UL1973 sodium ion battery products and started shipping to commercial customers in the data center, forklift and electric vehicle fast charging markets.

The company’s technology standards are drawn from existing lithium-ion manufacturing technology, so the company can scale quickly. Natron’s production capacity is expected to increase 200-fold by 2022 with the sodium ion battery supply chain and factory agreements in place.

Based on this, Natron uses a different organic electrolyte as the electrolyte for its sodium-ion battery products than most sodium ion battery companies, but chooses a safer aqueous electrolyte.

3. Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Limited (CATL)

Established Time	2011/12/16
Headquarters location	Ningde, China
Website	https://www.catl.com/en/

Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Limited (CATL) is a recognized leading company in China’s sodium-ion battery industry. As early as 2021, CATL was the first to release the first-generation sodium ion battery. At that time, the energy density of the cell unit reached 160wh/kg, the highest level in the world. 

CATL said at the press conference that the energy density of the first-generation sodium-ion battery developed by the company has reached 160Wh/kg, which is currently the highest level in the world. Charge it for 15 minutes at room temperature, and the power can reach 80%.

However, in a low-temperature environment of minus 20°C, there is still a discharge retention rate of more than 90%, and at the same time, the system integration efficiency can also reach more than 80%. Based on its excellent thermal stability, it has surpassed the safety requirements of the national power battery standard.

In addition, CATL also stated that the energy density of its next-generation sodium-ion batteries will exceed 200Wh/kg. The company also stated that it has begun the industrialization of sodium ion batteries and plans to form a basic industrial chain in 2023.

Research progress of sodium-ion batteries：

• Cathode materials: Currently, there are two types of materials with potential commercial value: Prussian white and layered oxide. The gram capacity has reached 160mAh/g, which is equivalent to the existing lithium-ion battery cathode materials. CATL has solved the worldwide problem of rapid capacity decay of materials during recycling, making innovative materials ready for industrialization.
• Anode material: Since sodium ions cannot shuttle freely between graphite layers like lithium ions, CATL has developed a hard carbon material with a unique pore structure that can store and quickly pass a large amount of sodium ions. This hard carbon The gram capacity of the material can be more than 350mAh/g, and it also has excellent cycle performance. The overall performance indicators are equivalent to existing graphite.
• Electrolyte: CATL has developed a new and unique electrolyte system suitable for such positive and negative electrode materials. The manufacturing process is compatible with the current lithium-ion battery manufacturing process and equipment.

CATL is also the top Lithium ion Battery Manufacturer, Read more:

• Top 10 Lithium ion battery manufacturers in China
• Top 20 Lithium ion Battery Manufacturers in the world

4. NGK INSULATORS, LTD.

Established Time	1919
Headquarters location	Nagoya, Japan
Website	https://www.ngk-insulators.com/en/

NGK Insulators is a manufacturer of and deploys sodium-sulfur battery (NAS) energy storage systems that operate at high temperatures, have high storage capacity, long discharge times (6 + hours), and have a working life of 15 years. Its battery products have been commercially produced since 2002, and before the lithium-ion battery application boom, this battery became the main battery technology used in grid-scale battery energy storage systems.

One of the largest battery storage projects NGK has deployed to date is the 108MW/648MWh sodium sulfur battery (NAS) storage project in ABU Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, which is controlled as a single power plant, helping to balance the local grid and provide backup power while also reducing reliance on natural gas power plants.

5. TIAMAT SAS

Established Time	2017
Headquarters location	Amiens, France
Website	http://www.tiamat-energy.com/en/

TIAMAT was jointly incubated in RS2E in 2017 by universities and research units such as the French National Center for Scientific Research, the French College in Paris, the Amiens Solid State Reaction and Chemistry Laboratory (LRCS), the Toulouse Intercollegiate Center for Materials Technology and Research (CIRIMAT), the Bordeaux Institute for Condensed Materials Chemistry (ICMCB), and the Barcelona Spanish Council for Advanced Research (CSIC).

As one of the startups of sodium ion batteries, in May 2021, Tiamat announced that it would increase its battery production scale and conduct large-scale testing with Plastic Omnium Group for sodium ion battery applications in hybrid vehicles. The sodium ion battery produced by Tiamat Company is a cylindrical battery with a sodium vanadium fluorophosphate/hard carbon organic electrolyte system, with an energy density of 90Wh/kg and a cycling capacity of over 4000 times. However, the V and F elements are toxic, and the system has a low energy density and high cost.

6. HiNa Battery Technology Co., Ltd

Established Time	2017
Headquarters location	Liyang, China
Website	https://www.hinabattery.com/en/

HiNa Battery Technology Co., Ltd is a high-tech enterprise that focuses on the research and production of new generation energy storage systems – sodium ion batteries. The company focuses on low-cost, long-life, high safety, and high energy density sodium ion battery products, with potential applications covering low-speed electric vehicles, large-scale energy storage, electric vehicles, national security, and other fields. Taking “carbon peaking, carbon neutrality” as the development opportunity, Provide the world with high safety and cost-effective energy storage batteries.

The policy background of HiNa Battery research and development of sodium ion batteries is the implementation of the national “dual carbon” strategy, which promotes the development of energy storage technology and industry. At present, there are still three major pain points in the new type of energy storage: firstly, the thermal runaway of energy storage batteries is difficult to control; Secondly, there are stage wise development issues such as vague business models and high initial investments in current market applications; Thirdly, the direction of electrochemical energy storage is high energy density, high specific power, fast response, high safety, and long lifespan. However, there is currently a lack of energy storage technologies that can balance capacity and power while meeting the requirements of long lifespan. Various technologies in the industry are competing for the top, but they are still in the early stages of industrialization.

HiNa Battery is a scientific and technological achievement transformation project of the Institute of Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. It focuses on the research and development of core positive and negative electrode materials, and focuses on the production and manufacturing of battery cells. After years of research and development, it has launched the first generation of sodium ion batteries. The energy density of the first generation sodium ion battery can reach 145Wh/kg, and the capacity retention rate is>83% after 4500 cycles at 2C/2C magnification. The world’s first 1 MWh sodium ion battery optical storage and charging intelligent microgrid demonstration system has been launched and successfully put into operation.

Tiamat, as a battery enterprise specializing in the design, development, and manufacturing of high-power, ultra fast charging sodium ion batteries in the field of mobile and fixed storage, has received technical support from Jean Marie Tarascon, a chemist at the 2022 CNRS Gold Award, and has long undertaken cutting-edge projects in the field of European sodium ion battery technology.

7. Altris AB

Established Time	2017
Headquarters location	Uppsala, Sweden
Website	http://www.tiamat-energy.com/en/

Swedish sodium ion battery developer Altris has demonstrated a pure Prussian white cathode material with a capacity of 160mAh/g, which is the highest capacity announced so far. This marks an important milestone in the commercialization process of Altris, as the capacity of the positive electrode material is crucial for improving the energy density and deployment of sodium ion batteries. Prussian white is a framework material composed of sodium, iron, carbon, and nitrogen. The large pores inside this material can capture and store a series of atoms or molecules, making the compound exhibit very exciting properties in a range of applications.

Altris, which was spun off from Uppsala University in 2017, developed a patented low-temperature and high-pressure synthesis method to produce Prussian white, which is highly suitable as a positive electrode material for sodium ion batteries.

Since its establishment in 2017, Otis has developed blueprints for Prussian white cathodes, electrolytes, battery cells, and sodium ion batteries. The new Prussian white cathode material is sustainable, made from abundant raw materials and free from toxic elements and controversial minerals such as nickel and cobalt.

High capacity cathode is crucial for improving the energy density of sodium ion batteries. With the development of the Prussian white cathode, Altris also achieved the highest energy density to date in commercial sodium ion batteries, reaching 150Wh/kg. This makes sodium batteries commercially feasible, such as grid energy storage connected to renewable energy production.

8. AMTE POWER PLC

Established Time	1997
Headquarters location	London, United Kingdom
Website	https://amtepower.com/

AMTE Power, a British company, makes batteries at a factory in Scotland. The plant is more than 30 years old, and its technical origins can be traced back to the above-mentioned Goodenough patent. At the same time, AMTE Power is also building a new plant with a capacity of 0.5GWh.

In 2021, AMTE Power and Faradion, a UK-based sodium-ion battery company, signed an agreement allowing AMTE Power to manufacture and sell sodium-ion batteries for energy storage solutions (ESS) within specified areas of use and geographical limits. This enables sodium ion battery technology to be integrated into a range of renewable energy applications, including residential energy storage, commercial microgrids, wind turbines and tidal energy storage.