Most of us are using them every day without ever thinking about it. Lithium-ion batteries power our laptops, phones, toothbrushes, vacuum cleaners – and increasingly also cars. But there's an even bigger job awaiting them: helping the world switch to wind and solar.

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We're destroying our environment at an alarming rate. But it doesn't need to be this way. Planet A explores the shift towards an eco-friendly world — and challenges our ideas about what dealing with climate change means. We look at the big and the small: What we can do and how the system needs to change. Every Friday we'll take a truly global look at how to get us out of this mess.

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Credits:
Reporter: Malte Rohwer-Kahlmann
Camera: Marco Borowski
Video Editor: Frederik Willmann
Supervising Editors: Kiyo Dörrer, Michael Trobridge
Factcheck: Alexander Paquet
Thumbnail: Em Chabridon

Read more:
The IEA's battery storage report:
https://iea.blob.core.windows.net/ass...

Article on invention of lithium-ion battery:
https://spectrum.ieee.org/lithium-ion...

Report on moving beyond storage durations of 4h:
https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy23osti/85...

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:51 Battery history
02:06 Enter: lithium-ion
04:11 Storing renewable energy
07:04 Challenges for lithium-ion
09:47 Conclusion