ZEBRA sodium-nickel-chloride battery
Batería ZEBRA de sodio y cloruro de níquel
- Date
- 1978-1985 · confidence medium
- Place
- Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa
- Credited to
- Johan Coetzer (CSIR, South Africa)
- Field
- Matter & energy
What it is
A molten-salt battery with a sodium anode, nickel-chloride cathode and beta-alumina electrolyte, safer than sodium-sulphur and tolerant of overcharge. It was created in the Zeolite Battery Research Africa project.
It was developed at the CSIR in Pretoria and industrialised in Europe (AEG, later Mes-Dea and FIAMM).
What it led to
- batteries for European electric buses and vans
- storage for telecoms and grids
- FIAMM's sodium-nickel battery line