SectorsSodium
Sodium
feedstock
The material that is on this platform for what it removes rather than for what it adds. It is in no annex of the Critical Raw Materials Act, which is the whole of its interest: a chemistry built on it answers a supply constraint by leaving the listed metal out.
Read in Batteries and solar.
Consumed by
- Sodium-ion cellssince 2025-04-21“Sodium in place of lithium in the cell.” — data/transition/technologies.json · No European site makes these cells, so this edge is to the route and not to a works — the same membership rule hydrogen is held to.
Substitutes for
- Lithiumsince 2025-04-21“it removes lithium from the bill of materials entirely, which is the reason it is on this list: the constraint it answers is supply rather than emissions” — data/transition/technologies.json