Japanese company Elecom has unveiled the world’s first power bank using sodium-ion battery technology, according to the company’s official press release. The sodium-ion power bank consists of ...

While this is the first sodium-ion power bank out there, its 45-W charging speed is fairly common, and it's heavier than cheaper lithium-ion ones you can get right now Elecom View gallery - 3 images ...

Elecom’s Na Plus power bank doesn’t use lithium and can be recharged nearly 5,000 times. Elecom’s Na Plus power bank doesn’t use lithium and can be recharged nearly 5,000 times.

Unlike traditional lithium-ion batteries, which depend on scarce metals like lithium and cobalt, sodium-ion batteries use sodium, an element that’s way easier to source. That means less ...

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And while batteries themselves aren’t some new technology, the lithium-ion (Li-on) kind that powers most of our devices only began gaining ground a few short decades ago. But just as the world ...

Japanese electronics company Elecom has recently unveiled the world’s first sodium-ion (Na+) power bank with a 9,000mAh capacity, supporting USB Power Delivery (PD) and offering up to 45W output via ...

Lithium-ion batteries have been powering our devices for more than three decades now. With them reaching a saturation point of improvements, we’re starting to see Silicon-Carbon batteries on phones.

Japanese hardware company Elecom has introduced what it claims is the world’s first power bank powered by a sodium-ion battery. Unlike traditional lithium-ion batteries, this new battery type ...

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