The Powerhouse: Inside the Invention of a Battery to Save the World
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A worldwide race is on to perfect the next engine of economic growth, the advanced lithium-ion battery. It will power the electric car, relieve global warming and catapult the winner into a new era of economic and political mastery. Can the United States win? Steve LeVine was granted unprecedented access to a secure federal laboratory outside Chicago, where a group of geniuses is trying to solve this next monumental task of physics. What emerged is The Powerhouse, a real-time, two-year account of big invention, big commercialization, and big deception.
Author: Steve Levine
Format: Hardback, 312 pages, 160mm x 236mm, 519 g
Published: 2015, Penguin Putnam Inc, United States
Genre: Energy Technology & Electrical Engineering
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A worldwide race is on to perfect the next engine of economic growth, the advanced lithium-ion battery. It will power the electric car, relieve global warming and catapult the winner into a new era of economic and political mastery. Can the United States win? Steve LeVine was granted unprecedented access to a secure federal laboratory outside Chicago, where a group of geniuses is trying to solve this next monumental task of physics. What emerged is The Powerhouse, a real-time, two-year account of big invention, big commercialization, and big deception.
The Powerhouse: Inside the Invention of a Battery to Save the World