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Multiple battery technologies — solid-state, sodium-ion, and lithium-sulfur — are approaching commercial production at different speeds, but the history of battery breakthroughs is littered with failures that never scaled beyond the lab. Sodium-ion batteries are closest to mass deployment, with CATL beginning large-scale production in 2026, while solid-state cells from Toyota and Samsung SDI remain years from cost parity with conventional lithium-ion packs that have already fallen to $108/kWh.