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1 online resource (xiii, 326 pages) |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Part I. The making of a battery: The fast-ion concept -- Goodenough's cathode -- Thackeray's cathode -- The graphite anode -- Japan's battery -- Part II. The heart of the electric car: The electric car quest -- The lithium-ion car -- Electric salvation -- Detroit awakens -- Validation: The Nobel. |
| Summary |
"Long Hard Road: The Lithium-Ion Battery and the Electric Car provides an inside look at the birth of the lithium-ion battery, from its origins in academic labs around the world to its transition to its new role as the future of automotive power. It chronicles the piece-by-piece development of the battery, from its early years when it was met by indifference from industry to its later emergence in Japan where it served in camcorders, laptops, and cell phones. The book is the first to provide a glimpse inside the Japanese corporate culture that turned the lithium-ion chemistry into a commercial product. It shows the intense race between two companies, Asahi Chemical and Sony Corporation, to develop a suitable anode. It also explains, for the first time, why one Japanese manufacturer had to build its first preproduction cells in a converted truck garage in Boston, Massachusetts. Building on that history, Long Hard Road then takes readers inside the auto industry to show how lithium-ion solved the problems of earlier battery chemistries and transformed the electric car into a viable competitor. Starting with the Henry Ford and Thomas Edison electric car of 1914, it chronicles a long list of automotive failures, then shows how a small California car converter called AC Propulsion laid the foundation for a revolution by packing its car with thousands of tiny lithium-ion cells. The book then takes readers inside the corporate board rooms of Detroit to show how mainstream automakers finally decided to adopt lithium-ion. Long Hard Road is unique in its telling of the lithium-ion tale, revealing that the battery chemistry was not the product of a single inventor, nor the dream of just three Nobel Prize winners, but rather was the culmination of dozens of scientific breakthroughs from many inventors whose work was united to create a product that ultimately changed the world"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Lithium ion batteries -- History -- Popular works.
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Lithium cells -- History -- Popular works.
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Electric automobiles -- Batteries -- Popular works.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Automotive |
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Electric automobiles -- Batteries |
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Lithium cells |
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Lithium ion batteries |
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History
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Popular works
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Murray, Charles J., 1954- Long hard road West Lafayette, Indiana : Purdue University Press, [2022] 9781612497624 (DLC) 2022006960 |
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9781612497631 electronic book |
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1612497632 electronic book |
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9781612497648 electronic book |
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1612497640 electronic book |
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9781612497624 hardcover |
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