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Long Hard Road: The Lithium-Ion Battery and the Electric Car by Charles J. Murra
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- ISBN-13
- 9781612497624
- Book Title
- Long Hard Road
- ISBN
- 9781612497624
- Subject Area
- Technology & Engineering, Transportation, Science
- Publication Name
- Long Hard Road : the Lithium-Ion Battery and the Electric Car
- Item Length
- 9.1 in
- Publisher
- Purdue University Press
- Subject
- Engineering (General), Automotive / History, Chemistry / Industrial & Technical, Automotive
- Publication Year
- 2022
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.2 in
- Item Width
- 6.1 in
- Item Weight
- 24 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 328 Pages
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Long Hard Road: The Lithium-Ion Battery and the Electric Car provides an inside look at the birth of the lithium-ion battery, from its origins in academic labs around the world to its transition to its new role as the future of automotive power. It chronicles the piece-by-piece development of the battery, from its early years when it was met by indifference from industry to its later emergence in Japan where it served in camcorders, laptops, and cell phones. The book is the first to provide a glimpse inside the Japanese corporate culture that turned the lithium-ion chemistry into a commercial product. It shows the intense race between two companies, Asahi Chemical and Sony Corporation, to develop a suitable anode. It also explains, for the first time, why one Japanese manufacturer had to build its first preproduction cells in a converted truck garage in Boston, Massachusetts. Building on that history, Long Hard Road then takes readers inside the auto industry to show how lithium-ion solved the problems of earlier battery chemistries and transformed the electric car into a viable competitor. Starting with the Henry Ford and Thomas Edison electric car of 1914, it chronicles a long list of automotive failures, then shows how a small California car converter called AC Propulsion laid the foundation for a revolution by packing its car with thousands of tiny lithium-ion cells. The book then takes readers inside the corporate board rooms of Detroit to show how mainstream automakers finally decided to adopt lithium-ion. Long Hard Road is unique in its telling of the lithium-ion tale, revealing that the battery chemistry was not the product of a single inventor, nor the dream of just three Nobel Prize winners, but rather was the culmination of dozens of scientific breakthroughs from many inventors whose work was united to create a product that ultimately changed the world.
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Publisher
Purdue University Press
ISBN-10
1612497624
ISBN-13
9781612497624
eBay Product ID (ePID)
17050422834
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Long Hard Road : the Lithium-Ion Battery and the Electric Car
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Engineering (General), Automotive / History, Chemistry / Industrial & Technical, Automotive
Publication Year
2022
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Technology & Engineering, Transportation, Science
Number of Pages
328 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.1 in
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Width
6.1 in
Item Weight
24 Oz
Additional Product Features
LCCN
2022-006960
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Lc Classification Number
Tk2945.L58m87 2022
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"We are at the threshold of a massive shift to electric vehicles. Charles Murray's Long Hard Road: The Lithium-Ion Battery and the Electric Car spells out the history of over one hundred years in the development of an appropriate battery. Historically, battery cost has been the largest impediment to commercialization of electric vehicles, but there are other important issues like material availability and safety. Key people and companies are discussed in the evolution of today's superior battery technology. As we look to the future, history is an important foundation for success." -- David E. Cole , Chair Emeritus, Center for Automotive Research, and Professor Emeritus, University of Michigan Engineering, "Charles J. Murray's Long Hard Road , while it leaves out discussion of the Biden administration's significant funding, paves a timely history of the scientific innovations powering EV battery technology, on-ramping us to the present energy transition. At a time when EVs are again being trotted into the limelight, Long Hard Road will fascinate many readers." -- H-Net
Table of Content
Preface Prologue: An Idea in the Air Timeline of Events Part I The Making of a Battery 1. The Fast-Ion Concept 2. Goodenough?s Cathode 3. Thackeray?s Cathode 4. The Graphite Anode 5. Japan?s Battery Part II The Heart of the Electric Car 6. The Electric Car Quest 7. The Lithium-Ion Car 8. Electric Salvation 9. Detroit Awakens 10. Validation: The Nobel Afterword: What History Teaches Us Acknowledgments Who?s Who Glossary Notes Index
Copyright Date
2022
Dewey Decimal
621.31242
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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