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The various players in the ICE and oil industries had a common practice of buying out battery technology developers or their patents to keep advancement off the
by Schiendelman 2y ago
The various players in the ICE and oil industries had a common practice of buying out battery technology developers or their patents to keep advancement off the market. Lithium ion batteries were first developed in the 1970s, and could have come to market much earlier if not for those practices.