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Aluminium and Sodium-ion batteries

Their prices have moved together.

Aluminium (commodity) and Sodium-ion batteries (energy): 1 relationship.

How they are linked

1. Price link: current collector

Cost and price · Weak · Both ways

Sodium does not alloy with aluminium, so both electrodes can use aluminium foil instead of copper on the anode side, which cuts cost. The battery proxy shows no clear link to aluminium, with yearly moves at 0.21.

  • -0.06 monthly change correlation
  • 0.21 12-month change correlation
  • 0.23 fitted elasticity

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