Sodium I saw some reviews where it expands a lot during charging and long term safety is not as conclusive
Why do you see sodium as an easier choice?
The main fire risk with lifepo4 is the connectors, wires, bms and shut off being suitable for high amp. That would be a risk with anything if not built properly, even without batteries if you wire your house with wrong awg wires
then if you can stay under long enough, the look into electrolights, this is all uni 101 stuff, but it is very clear that lithium is dead for static applications, and lower performance mobile
other words, cost, supply chain strongly favor sodium over lithium
CATL barely started (if at all) volume production. They haven’t even published specs. Even when they ramp it up, it will be like 0.1% of total lfp output.
So no, sodium is nowhere near.
https://electrek.co/2026/02/05/first-sodium-ion-battery-ev-d...
and in typical China fashion you can bet that actual implimentation is going to scale at a ferocious pace now that first iterations are proving competitive..... then we could, but wont, get into other significant developments in electric power, solar, battery, etc that will be entering the market, at scale, this year wink wink