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No company involved in lithium ion batteries just popped up out of nowhere. Whittingham worked for ExxonMobil. Akira Yoshino worked at a joint venture of Toshi
by Aloisius 9mo ago
No company involved in lithium ion batteries just popped up out of nowhere.
Whittingham worked for ExxonMobil. Akira Yoshino worked at a joint venture of Toshiba and Asahi Kasei. And Yoshio Nishi worked at Sony.
They were all giant well-established companies.
- brokencode 9mo agoPlus, every major battery and car company is chasing solid state battery technology as the holy grail. And lots of startups.
- _heimdall 9mo agoWhen I was buying lithium ion cells a few years ago for a custom off-grid battery build, CATL cells had the best reviews and testing results around. They were founded in 2011 as a spin-off from ATL, itself founded in 1999 by a Chinese billionaire (Robin Zeng). They definitely didn't pop up out of nowhere.