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 powe. 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 move. • 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 wh.
