Akira Yoshino

Nobel-Winning Battery Leader Suggests Letting EVs Power the Grid to Go Green
Nobel-winner Akira Yoshino sees crucial role for two-way charging Plug-in vehicles can help nations like Japan add renewables
Dec 14, 2021 // Technology, Storage, Japan, Asia, Akira Yoshino, EV
Nobel chemistry prize: Lithium-ion battery scientists honoured
Three scientists have been awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the development of lithium-ion batteries.
Oct 16, 2019 // Storage, USA, UK, Europe, North America, lithium-ion battery, Akira Yoshino, Nobel chemistry prize, John B Goodenough, M Stanley Whittingham, Sara Snogerup Linse, Bonnie Charpentier, Dame Carol Robinson
‘They created a rechargeable world’
American John B. Goodenough, Brit Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino, from Japan, have received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for developing the lithium-ion battery. A statement from the Royal Academy of Sciences of Sweden said the invention “laid the foundations of a society without wires and fossil fuels, and [they] are of great benefit to humanity”.
Oct 9, 2019 // Technology, Storage, USA, Japan, Lithium-ion batteries, Germany, UK, Europe, Asia, North America, John B. Goodenough, Brit Stanley Whittingham, Akira Yoshino, Nobel Prize