Although sodium-ion battery technology is still in the early stages of development, these global sodium ion battery companies are expected to occupy a significant position in the future battery market as technology continues to advance and market demand increases. The companies’ ability to innovate and adapt to the market will determine their success or failure in this emerging field.
Top 9 Global Sodium Ion Battery CompanyÂ
- HiNa Battery
- CATL
- BYD
- Faradion
- Natron Energy
- Â NGK INSULATORS
- TIAMAT
- Altris
- AMTE POWER
1.HiNa Battery
| Established date | 2017 |
| Global headquarters | Beijing, China |
| Company website | https://www.hinabattery.com/ |
2. CATL
| Established date | 2011 |
| Global headquarters | Fujian, China |
| Company website | https://www.catl.com/ |
CATL Times is a leading global new energy innovation and technology company, dedicated to providing first-class solutions and services for global new energy applications. Its power battery market share has been ranked first in the world for five consecutive years, and in 2021, CATL Times entered into sodium ion batteries.In July 2021, CATL Times released its first sodium-ion battery, and the energy density of the single cell has reached 160Wh/kg, and it has already started the industrialization layout of sodium-ion batteries.
CATL Times plans to achieve the energy density of the second generation of sodium ion battery to be more than 200Wh/kg, and to form a basic industrial chain in 2023. in January 2022, CATL Times signed an agreement with Rongbai Technology to actively develop supporting materials for sodium ion battery.
3.BYD
| Established date | 1995 |
| Global headquarters | Shenzhen, China |
| Company website | https://www.byd.com/ |
Founded in 1995 and listed on the Hong Kong Main Board on July 31, 2002, BYD, headquartered in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China, is a new technology private enterprise with three major industrial clusters, namely IT, automobile and new energy. BYD has nine production bases in Guangdong, Beijing, Shaanxi, Shanghai and Tianjin, with a total area of nearly 7 million square meters. BYD also has branches or offices in the United States, Europe, Japan, Korea, India and other countries, as well as Taiwan and Hong Kong, with a total of nearly 200,000 employees.
4.Faradion
| Established date | 2011 |
| Global headquarters | Sheffield, United Kingdom |
| Company website | https://faradion.co.uk/ |
Faradion is a pioneer in the development of low-cost, high-performance sodium-ion batteries. The company’s products are used in high-power applications such as grid energy storage and electric vehicles.
Faradion has developed a strategic, broad and extensive intellectual property portfolio covering many aspects of sodium-ion battery technology. The IP portfolio consists of a number of jointly held patents, including 21 existing patent families (including 8 issued patents), focused on three key areas of sodium-ion technology:
Battery materials: including cathode, anode and electrolyte materials and methods for their preparation
Battery infrastructure
Battery safety and transportation
5.Natron Energy
| Established date | 2012 |
| Global headquarters | California, United States |
| Company 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.
6.Ngk Insulators
| Established date | 1919 |
| Global headquarters | Nagoya, Japan |
| Company website | https://www.ngk-insulators.com/ |
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.
7.TIAMATÂ
| Established date | 2017 |
| Global headquarters | Amiens, France |
| Company website | http://www.tiamat-energy.com/ |
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.
8.Altris
| Established date | 2017 |
| Global headquarters | Uppsala, Sweden |
| Company website | http://www.tiamat-energy.com/ |
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.
9.AMTE POWER
| Established date | 1997 |
| Global headquarters | London, United Kingdom |
| Company 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.
CATL
In summary, while CATL is currently the leader in EV battery technology, the landscape is dynamic, with multiple companies making significant advancements and competing for leadership in this crucial sector.
BYD: Vertically integrated battery and EV manufacturer with top market share in both segments.
Arcadium Lithium: New lithium major following the merger between Allkem and Livent.
Albemarle: Global lithium producer with ambitious expansion plans.
Today, among all the state-of-the-art storage technologies, li-ion battery technology allows the highest level of energy density. Performances such as fast charge or temperature operating window (-50°C up to 125°C) can be fine-tuned by the large choice of cell design and chemistries.
Natron Energy Inc. is the world's leading developer and supplier of high-power, long-life, low-cost Prussian Blue Sodium-Ion battery solutions for critical power and industrial applications such as data centre UPS systems and electrically-powered materials handling equipment.
