Who Really Invented the Rechargeable Lithium-Ion Battery?
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JULY 30, 2023
It was manufactured in small volumes by Exxon, appeared at an electric vehicle show in Chicago in 1977, and served briefly as a coin cell battery. Oxford takes the handoff In 1976, John Goodenough [left] joined the University of Oxford, where he headed development of the first lithium cobalt oxide cathode. But then Exxon dropped it.
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