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North Carolina is getting a $1.4B sodium-ion battery gigafactory (electrek.co)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (3 children)

How do you create gigawatts of batteries. Wouldn’t it be something more like gigawatt-hours of batteries?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Yeah, it's probably GWh, W and Wh are frequently interchanged.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Yeah you're probably right.

Although the peak power you can withdraw from a battery is also an important factor, the energy capacity would be the expected size to be reported here.