Science Daily  December 15, 2023 An international team of researchers (Sweden, Norway) performed a prospective life cycle assessment (LCA) of large-scale production of two different sodium-ion battery (SIB) cells with a cradle-to-gate system boundary. The SIB cells modeled have Prussian white cathodes and hard carbon anodes based only on abundant elements and thus constituted potentially preferable options to current lithium-ion battery (LIB) cells from a mineral resource. The functional unit was 1 kWh theoretical electricity storage capacity, and the specific energy density of the cells was 160 Wh/kg. For SIB cell materials, prospective inventory data was obtained from a generic […]