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. This is a history of the. • 1960s: Much of the that led to the development of the compounds that form the core of lithium-ion batteries was carried out in the 1960s by and, who studied the movement of in solids. In a 1967 report by the The performance and capacity of lithium-ion batteries increased as development progressed. • 1991: and started commercial sale of the first rechargeable lithium-ion battery. The Japanese team that successfully. • 1974: Besenhard was the first to show reversibility of Li-ion intercalation into graphite anodes, using organic solvents, including carbonate solvents. • 1976: and his colleagues at demonstrated what can be considered the first. Industry produced about 660 million cylindrical lithium-ion cells in 2012; the size is by far the most popular for cylindrical cells. If were to have met its goal of shipping 40,000 in 2014 and if the 85 kWh battery, which uses 7,104 of.
