A Sacramento factory will turn out 4 gigawatt hours of sodium batteries a year starting early next year, and it is the first US plant built solely for this grid chemistry

A warehouse-sized shell on the edge of Sacramento sits mostly empty right now. Soon it will be stacking steel battery enclosures the size of…

Rows of sodium-ion battery enclosures inside a new US factory, sacramento factory
Energy · Hugo Rojas · October 23, 2026
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