Battery Basics
The Search for Longer-Lasting Lead-Acid Batteries
Engineers faced an important question, as lead-acid batteries became popular. Searchers for longer-lasting solutions wondered…
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Battery Basics
Battery Basics
How Lead-Acid Batteries Became Easier to Manufacture
The success of the lead-acid battery depended on mass manufacture, more than good chemistry. In a…
Battery Basics
Lead-Acid Batteries Take To The Road
When lead-acid batteries take to the road, then things are literally humming! Lead-acid batteries did…
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The Lithium-Ion Revolution Had Many Foot Soldiers
The lithium-ion revolution had many ground troops supporting it. Although historians often focus on Nobel Chemistry Prize…
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Akira Yoshino Makes Lithium-Ion Batteries Practical
There were two important discoveries made by the early 1980’s. Whittingham had shown that lithium…
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Early Electrochemical Battery Evolution in Europe
Batteries produce electricity through controlled electro-chemical reactions. When the early electro-chemical battery revolution began in…
Battery Basics
Two Temperature Scales for Batteries
We like to refer to the two temperature scales for batteries in our blog, because we…
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The Oldest Lead-Acid Battery
Was that a photo of the the oldest lead-acid battery still in existence, that you…
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Pioneering Days of Lithium Batteries
A quick dive into the pioneering days of lithium batteries, tells us they have been…
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Birth of the Button Cell Battery
The birth of the button cell battery did not come when alkaline batteries arrived. In…