Conclusive summary and perspective Lithium-ion batteries are considered to remain the battery technology of choice for the near-to mid-term future and it is anticipated that significant to substantial further improvement is possible.
2012: John Goodenough, Rachid Yazami and Akira Yoshino received the 2012 IEEE Medal for Environmental and Safety Technologies for developing the lithium-ion battery.
In fact, compared to other emerging battery technologies, lithium-ion batteries have the great advantage of being commercialized already, allowing for at least a rough estimation of what might be possible at the cell level when reporting the performance of new cell components in lab-scale devices.
Forecasts on the future lithium-ion battery demand show, in fact, that a significant increase in nickel supply is needed, which is not covered by the existing mines. Accordingly, new mining projects and recycling strategies are inevitable, while ideally also new, low nickel content chemistries will be explored. 3.2.2.
The breakthrough of the lithium-ion battery technology was triggered by the substitution of lithium metal as an anode active material by carbonaceous compounds, nowadays mostly graphite . Several comprehensive reviews partly or entirely focusing on graphite are available [28, , , , , ].
BASF breaks ground for lithium-ion battery materials plant in Ohio, October 2009. ^ Monthly battery sales statistics Archived 2010-12-06 at the Wayback Machine. Machinery statistics released by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, March 2011.
OverviewCommercialization in automotive applications: 2008-todayBefore lithium-ion: 1960-1975Precommercial development: 1974-1990Commercialization in portable applications: 1991-2007Market
• 2008: The launch of Tesla Roadster- the first highway legal, serial production, all-electric car to use lithium-ion battery cells, and the first production all-electric car to travel more than 244 miles (393 km) per charge- ushered a new era in the history of Li-ion batteries, which is signified as inflection points in the plots "The log number of publications about electrochemical powersources by year" and "The number of non-patent publications about lithium-ion batteries" shown on this …