The battery is ready to power the world
An electric car is charged by a mobile charging station on a street in Prague, Czech Republic
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Russell Gold,
, The Wall Street Journal
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Rechargeable lithium-ion batteries were first commercially used in hand-held camcorders in 1991. Laptops soon followed. A decade later, batteries enabled the rise of tech titans such as Apple Inc. by powering smartphones and wearable devices, then made their way into electric vehicles. The basic technology throughout remained pretty much the same: Lithium ions move through a liquid from the cathode to the anode, and back again.