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Dec. 5, 2023
Making History: Lithium and a Nobel Laureate
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Dec. 5, 2023
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We don’t often get to meet our heroes in person, but our very own Patrick Howarth did.
Patrick leads our new lithium business – and he recently met Dr. Stanley Whittingham, whose groundbreaking research in an ExxonMobil lab in the 1970s earned him a Nobel Prize in Chemistry. That research also paved the way for the lithium-ion batteries that power today’s electric vehicles and portable electronics.
Click below to join Patrick as he takes a trip to Binghamton University in New York, and spends a day with the Nobel laureate chatting about his thoughts on electric vehicles, his excitement about our lithium production announcement, and why he thinks, “If anyone can do it, ExxonMobil can.”
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ExxonMobil drilling first lithium well in Arkansas, aims to be a leading supplier for electric vehicles by 2030
SPRING, Texas – Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE: XOM) today announced plans to become a leading producer of lithium, a key component of electric vehicle (EV) batteries. Work has begun for the company’s first phase of North America lithium production in southwest Arkansas, an area known to hold significant lithium deposits. The product offer will be branded as Mobil™ Lithium, building on the rich history of deep technical partnership between Mobil and the automotive industry.
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Nov. 13, 2023
Faces and places: Our Arkansas lithium project
Our very first lithium project is made possible by a team of experts from across our company. Their groundbreaking effort in southwest Arkansas will provide more lithium for electric vehicle batteries, with less environmental impact. They’re also unlocking a potentially significant new supply of lithium in North America, which today produces relatively little of this critical mineral.
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If you are reading this on a phone, tablet or laptop, you should probably thank Dr. M. Stanley Whittingham. In the 1970s Dr. Whittingham was working at ExxonMobil’s Clinton, New Jersey, corporate research lab when he created the very first examples of a radical new technology: the rechargeable lithium-ion battery.
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