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		bmicraft 78 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Sodium-ion batteries have started to appear in car... Resistive heating is pretty wasteful, and heat pumps are expensive. If it's not necessary then leaving it out will be much more efficient.

hyperadvanced 78 days ago [–]

That’s my core comment here. Batteries already have to fight a lot of entropy, don’t make it harder than you need to

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