No. He's right. YOUR are wrong.
Li-ion is a solid state battery and has been for 40 years, so you can drop that 'breakthrough' right now.
Now let's discuss the sodium based battery:
Sodium has a lower electron potential than lithium (only 2.71 compared to Lithium 3.04). This reduces the available capacity of joules available per mole of sodium in a battery. In other words, for a battery with the same number of atoms in it, sodium has lower capacity. Sodium batteries are almost four times heavier than their Li-ion counterparts as well. This will make the car too heavy. A 50Mj Li-ion battery pack weighs half a ton. A 50Mj Na-ion battery pack will weigh 2 tons.
Sodium metal also doesn't occur naturally. It is very expensive to synthesize from something like sodium chloride (common salt), with electrolysis being the favored method (consuming vast amounts of electricity to do it). Sodium metal is also much more reactive than Lithium when exposed to water or even water vapor, making this battery FAR MORE DANGEROUS than any Li-ion battery (which ALREADY have problems with fire!). Sodium has a greater fire hazard rating than lithium. Exposure to water or water vapor causes fire at room temperature! Watch out for those hot humid days!
Like any battery, it must be charged. Where are you going to get the power from? Solar and wind are piddle power. They can't do it. Solar is also the most expensive method of producing power there is, with wind being the 2nd most expensive method.
After 2035, when semi-trucks using diesel fuel are banned, how is California going to install or maintain any wind or solar plant? There no practical EV trucks.
This is not new science. There is no science here. Engineering is not science. THIS proposed engineering is stupid, for the reasons I just described.
Sodium is MUCH rarer than lithium. ALL of it must be manufactured, using tremendous amounts of energy to manufacture in the quantity needed. It is also MUCH MORE dangerous to handle and creates a much more dangerous battery.
Such a house will never meet building code. Fire hazard. I suggest you go study the building codes including structural, fire, plumbing, HVAC, and electrical codes. Those codes are there for a reason.
Smart utility companies buy their power from reliable sources that are easily ramped up or down as loads change. They buy from sources that are cheapest. Solar and wind ain't it. They can neither be ramped up or down on demand, they are unreliable, and they are VERY expensive sources of electric power. Remember, power utilities purchase power by the watt.
Texas has never sustained a collapse of it's power grid. California is well on it's way there, though. Being part of the WRIC, they now import almost all their power. Those lines are seriously overloaded now. The WRIC will not sacrifice itself to save California. It will shed the load. California goes dark.
California already suffers rolling blackouts due to poor power generating capacity. If an overloaded power line touches a tree or something, that could set off a chain reaction in the grid. WRIC will disconnect California to save itself. California goes dark. Not rolling blackouts...BLACKOUT.
Charging batteries means that power is not available for use elsewhere. At best you get a few hours from the batteries before they are discharged. Remember you can't charge a battery with solar power at night. You cannot charge a battery with wind power unless the wind is within a narrow range of windspeed and there are no icing conditions (wind generators cannot run in icing conditions).
ICE cars have undergone dramatic improvement. Far more than EVs. In just the last decade, for example, better materials have come available for gaskets, engine casings (what you call the 'block'), improvements in sensor designs (now there are sensors that monitor your tire pressure in a rotating wheel!). Further, since the Li-ion battery was invented in the 80s', ICE cars have completely replaced that old carburetor with FADEC designs, vastly improving mileage and producing a much cleaner burn, producing little more than CO2 and water for the exhaust. EGR systems have essentially eliminated NOx gas formation during the burn, and the smog that comes with it. Even L.A. is basically free of smog now, suffering only marine haze and dust storms primarily. Nothing like the stuff in the 70's that you could cut with a butter knife.
Ahhh...the old 'horse and buggy' argument..*yawn*.
ICE cars ARE pushing technology. EVs aren't. They've been using the same battery developed 40 years ago and cage rotor motors developed 50 years ago. The cars are spiffier looking, but that's about it. They tend to be shoddy and have poor handling characteristics due to their excessive weight (Na-ion batteries will make that FAR worse!).
Blatant lie. History favors the gasoline car and has for a long time. Currently, less than 1% of the cars on the road are EVs. Those gasoline cars are using latest technology. The EVs aren't. All that's happened to the EV is just bigger and bigger battery packs (some vehicles now sport 150Mj packs, weighing over 2 tons).
It's about power to weight ratio. That's why you don't see a lot of people buying into the EV, and why you don't see practical electric powered aircraft.
Gasoline engines are light, use a renewable fuel (that's actually pretty cheap once you take all the fucking taxes, restrictions, and overregulation away!), are easy to maintain using commonly available tools, and new ICE cars require no more maintenance than new EVs. Gasoline engines are cheaper, more efficient (using about half the energy of an EV to go the same distance for the same sized car), lighter (reducing road wear and making it practical for aircraft), and because of the FADEC design these engines now use, are self adjusting, self monitoring, self diagnosing of developing problems, provide free cabin heat in winter (EVs use the battery, seriously reducing range), and have an infinite practical range (gasoline engines don't need hours to charge!).
Worried about maintenance?? It takes me a whopping ten minutes once or twice a year to change my engine oil. The used engine oil is cleaned and sold again as useful engine oil (some people heat their homes or garages with it!).
I can (and do) fix my own car if it happens to develop a problem (rare, since I take care of my cars) using my own tools, which are commonly available. Can't do THAT with an EV! They require dealer repair only! EXPENSIVE!
It only takes me a few minutes once a week to refuel my car. EV drivers are constantly worried about recharging their car. It's like watching a neurosis.
A Tesla Model 3 cannot tow anything. A Subaru Impreza, a car of similar size, can easily tow a loaded utility trailer (capable of carrying a riding mower), and costs 1/3 that of the Model 3.
I can also refuel a gasoline engine from a gas can. Can't do THAT with an EV!
People also go 'muddin' with gasoline engines. Can't do THAT with an EV!
Horses and buggies, BTW, are still used...mostly in tourist areas, and the horse has to wear diapers. Talk about city pollution! Horses were generally banned from cities because of the stench. Gasoline cars really took care of THAT problem! There are the Amish too, that still use them for daily transport. They tend to stay out of the cities and stay in their own communities. Cities don't want horses for serious practical reasons.
You know your shit, educate me on the potential for graphene batteries in terms I can easily follow.
