Inventor

M. Stanley Whittingham

Patents indexed

Year range

1977

Associated with

Exxon Research and Engineering Co

Years active

1977

Total patents

Most recent

1977

Domains

energy-storagebatterieselectric-vehicleschemistrymaterials-science

Activity by decade

1970s

Patents

US 4009052·1977·Exxon Research and Engineering Co

The First Rechargeable Lithium Battery — Built at an Oil Company

M. Stanley Whittingham's lithium chalcogenide battery at Exxon in 1977 was the world's first practical rechargeable lithium cell — the discovery that started the Nobel Prize–winning chain of inventions behind modern EV batteries.