

Long Hard Road
The Lithium-Ion Battery and the Electric Car
Author: Charles J. Murray
Narrator: Patrick Lawlor
Unabridged: 13 hr 27 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 12/27/2022
Categories: Nonfiction, Science, Chemistry, Technology & Engineering, Electrical
Synopsis
Long Hard Road then takes listeners 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.
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, but rather was the culmination of dozens of scientific breakthroughs from many inventors whose work was united to create a product that changed the world.