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CATL's sodium-ion grid storage platform — 30-year lifespan, 15,000 cycles, 92% capacity retention at −20°C — is not an incremental improvement. It reclassifies grid-scale storage from depreciating equipment to 30-year infrastructure, and puts sodium on a physics-mandated path to a $18/kWh cost floor by 2035.