History of the Lithium-Ion Battery
The Lithium-Ion battery has its beginnings in the 1970’s, when British chemist M. Stanley Whittingham proposed creating an energy-storage device using lithium cells. The first lithium batteries used lithium and titanium sulfide metals which was impractical because of titanium suflide’s expensive production costs (titanium sulfide metals cost around $1,000 back in the ‘70s), not to [...]