Der Ölkonzern, der die E-Auto-Revolution auslöste | Geladen Podcast

In the 1970s, the world's most powerful oil company wanted to know what would come after oil—and stumbled upon a technology that is now challenging the very oil age: the lithium-ion battery. This episode of "Charged" tells the astonishing story of an invention that began in an Exxon lab, was significantly developed at universities in Oxford and Tokyo, and finally made its way to the mass market in 1991 thanks to Sony. We talk about M. Stanley Whittingham, John B. Goodenough, and Akira Yoshino, about burning prototypes, forgotten patents, lucky breaks—and why modern smartphones, electric cars, and affordable home energy storage systems would be inconceivable without this battery. A story of oil crises, research, risk, a Nobel Prize—and one of the greatest ironies in energy history. NordVPN: Enjoy your online life safely and worry-free! NordVPN's next-generation antivirus warns you about online fraud and protects you from fake web shops and phishing emails. Go to https://nordvpn.com/geladen now, use the code "GELADEN," and get four extra months with NordVPN. In the Geladen podcast, Daniel Messling and Patrick von Rosen and their guests explore the topics of energy transition, electromobility, electric cars, and battery research from a scientific perspective. This podcast is produced for the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). 🤩 Become an advertising partner of Geladen now! 🚀 Start a partnership: [email protected] LinkedIn:   / geladen-der-batteriepodcast   Instagram:   / geladenpodcast   Links: https://linktr.ee/geladen