Connected Car
Opinion: How new battery safety norms boost consumer confidence and drive EV adoption The industry and the government are taking concrete steps to improve the safety standards for EV batteries and to entirely prevent such incidents as those that happened in the summer of 2022. Consequently, from March 2023 the batteries used to power EVs, whether fixed or swappable, will meet the highest safety standards and will ward off untoward incidents. "A surge in lithium carbonate prices last year made many battery manufacturers and downstream users face ever-rising cost pressures," Hina said. "Therefore, sodium-ion batteries offering better cost-performance, high safety as well as excellent cycle performance, have been widely expected as the most promising alternative to lithium-ion batteries. "Sodium-ion batteries have lower density than their lithium-ion counterparts.