The lithium-ion battery powers our world, but its invention almost never happened. This is the story of three scientists whose decades of work were marked by explosive failures, corporate indifference, and repeated dead ends. Uncover the unlikely history of the Nobel Prize-winning technology that started with an oil crisis and revolutionized everything from handheld cameras to the return of the electric car.
- 1973 oil crisis
- Akira Yoshino
- anode
- battery chemistry
- battery fire
- battery invention
- battery safety
- battery technology
- cathode
- cobalt mining
- electric vehicles
- electrolyte
- energy density
- energy storage
- engineering
- EV battery
- Exxon
- future of batteries
- graphite anode
- history of batteries
- how a battery is made
- how batteries work
- intercalation
- John B. Goodenough
- lithium cobalt oxide
- lithium dendrites
- lithium-ion battery
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- portable electronics
- rechargeable battery
- science of batteries
- SEI
- solid electrolyte interface
- Sony
- Sony Handycam
- Stanley Whittingham
- thermal runaway
- titanium disulfide
- veritasium
- voltage
- youtube
