How it's made Lithium Ion batteries

[veritas0071]

Compared to other How It's Made videos, this one was very poorly done.

[rolficus]

highly explosive if emersed in water

[wixx95]

240p for left right audio.

[lariwoo]

Wonder how much crystal meth all that lithium could produce?

[ZT742]

That American accent annoys me so much...

[millertimez06]

These comments make me laugh!

[BlankMee]

Well SHEET

[Tamaslammer]

The crappy audio made this video really hard for me to jerk off to.

[applefanXXX]

my left ear enjoyed this

[behnamasid]

@applefanXXX lol

[applefanXXX]

@behnamasid thanks did ya' know im only 11



[SolidArch]

@applefanXXX 240 p and sound comes goes to both ears. the quality is already bad enough for it to be minimally affected.

[boinz]

@applefanXXX Unfortunately, 240p seems to fix it.

[Velodynamic]

Solution - pull out your stereo plug slightly from the computer so that you'll have mono sound in your headphones while watching this video clip.

[straighter100]

wow.... when you wrap your head around it, you realist how much engineering, physics, chemistry, and robotics is needed to build daily use products. Glad I have an education.

[fartinthewind13]

Oh, so that's how you make RC plane batteries!

[MvGogh]

There is evidence that batteries are way older than what is presented here, along with the light bulb.

[MrSyntheticDesign]

lol 240 is better ahahahahah

[730ize]

impossible to make at home

[thirtyoneuniform]

I love lithium ion batteries.

[smokeegrill]

left side of my headphone is broken :(

[poeng209]

where is the hd?

[thuythi2]

1:00. A norwegian electric car ''Think''!

[fog12ry12]

i ment 1:55

[fog12ry12]

@ 2:00 he says .o1 o is a letter not a number

[TheItalianPerson]

put water on it :)

[snedie69er]

I love how there wasn't a single scientific fact in this whole clip, about right for typical viewers of today's TV.

[Themayseffect]

@snedie69er because they dont want you to make them they're only explaining how companies compose it.

[snedie69er]

@Themayseffect

Or the fact that 99% of people who watch this show don't even understand basic principles of any scientific study, let alone how complex some of our everyday items really are.

Also, to make one of these batteries (to this quality/standard) your talking about a factory that costs more than an entire city block of people will earn in a month.

[Themayseffect]

@snedie69er true that.. more than just the scientific study, but the amounts of precision machining, quality control, room safety. gas safety. so on and so on is needed just so that materials arent ruined or destroyed in the process. this show is somewhat ensightful. but people shouldnt watch it thinking oh now i can go make whatever i want becaus i saw the process on tv :l

[snedie69er]

Batteries have been around since the Aztec's

[trinisprear]

@shadowslave18 lol it says in the beginning "this program also available in hd" and we only have 360p and 240p

[jschoones2009]

sound is only on the right.

[Serostern]

@jschoones2009 No shit?

There is a four month old comment on how you fix that problem.

Duh.

[iSuperdupaloveweed]

watching this high while listening to mgmt blew me awaaayyy

[legitimatemind]

@shadowslave18 Actually the sound doesn't "readjusts" it switches to mono

[enjoi389]

@shadowslave18 thanks, i only have one speaker nd now i can hear it

[BTW6666]

I'm watching this on an iPod. It uses a li-ion battery :D

[Captainbob25202000]

this company is in canada or was in canada it went bankrupt, the batteries weren

t that good

[idan4411]

Car engines that make the characteristic "starting" noise use lead-acid batteries, not Lithium ion batteries.

[SteveSabbai]

...so the next time my car battery dies im gona go find a Frog to jump start my vehicle! :P

[twg6669]

every video I watch where people take the lithium from batteries, it start to oxidize instantly and start turning dark....Why doesnt that happen in this video?  Even before they put the laminant on it?

[UKRAINERULES253]

@shadowslave18 then it only plays out of the right one

[Rcnation101]

I haevto power my rc car

[redsonja84]

@shadowslave18 There is no 240p

[dimopro]

It can't be Lithium Ion batteries . No pure li metal exits in an actual li-ion battery, but another li complex.

[RyN2iX]

OMG a portal gun! 3:58 hahaha. blue and orange XD

[TheChickenrun3]

@RyN2iX I HAVE ORANGE BOX AND PORTAL 2 AND AN XBOX AND IT AL = YAY!!!!

[RyN2iX]

@TheChickenrun3 yay! but im not into console. im more of a pc gamer :)

[TheChickenrun3]

@RyN2iX yeah i want to be a pc gamer but a good pc is way more expensive than a console that just plays everything made for it

[Spyez]

@TheChickenrun3

A PC gamer is not a profession, it's a recreational hobby...

[RyN2iX]

@TheChickenrun3 hmmm tru pc is expensive but in console u have to buy games :) unlike pc u can download all the latest games :) i heard u can download for xbox. u need to mod you console i think.

GAME ON!

[TheChickenrun3]

@RyN2iX it is true that you can easily piarate games 4 pc and you can mod your console to play 'backups' or you can sometimes download certain games to the console's hard drive on your computer and play them without modding the console

[harshLesson]

@shadowslave18 thank you brother

[SabretoothSnowMan]

They should then in the UK. I hate the way this country deals with winter.

[BYERE]

It's made with electrolytes! What are electrolytes? Hell if I know but they sound AWESOME!!!!

[SabretoothSnowMan]

@BYERE They are minerals that are discussed when concerning ion transport (charged particals).

[BYERE]

@SabretoothSnowMan I was quoting a line from a drink known as Brawndo, a once fake (now actually made) energy drink featured in the film "Idiocracy". It had an advert for it that says what I quoted in it.

[kertcobainSA]

i hate how "MrBananasundae" told me it's only playing on one speaker. because then i noticed.. and couldn't watch the video..

[383chevystroker]

it would ahear to itself hahahahahahahahaha

[1smoke2eat3sleep]

wicked science

[XVsiLEnT]

New show! How its made: speakers that can play out both ears.

[jazerazo]

I thought that the nose has to be UNDER the mask!

[rzheng25]

i love this show

[markisfresh930]

i love this show :)

[Legboy1129]

I wonder what happens if you throw that 11lb round of Lithium in water ?

[hanzithaking]

@Legboy1129 not very much...

[mrfester42]

@Legboy1129 It will vaporize New York City! Don't you know anything?

[TehMG]

I find the comment about a car starting at -15F rather amusing. Don't need a Lithium battery for that. My car with a plain ol' lead acid battery starts fine even at -22F.

[OfficeThug]

@TehMG Yes but this particular battery stores about 3 times more energy for the same weight and takes up far less volume. So your acid car battery sucks total ass compared to it.

[garykempen]

@TehMG

You're pretty far off the context there. My trusty ancient Volvo 242 started fine at -30F back in the day. However, it really didn't like repeated charge cycles, & was seriously compromised after only 5 deep cycles. A lithium battery does just as well on temp (i.e., not great), and with >1000 controlled cycles at 1/4 the weight per energy stored.

[ustfu]

Cool. I just invested in lithium sector. Lithium batteries can be found in pretty much every electronics from Casio watches to Nissan Leaf.

Take a look at an ETF (Symbol: LIT).

[YoLninYo]

stupid shit! one second it's a "lithium" sheet , cut to next scene he's testing the fucking voltage! HEY! I THOUGHT YOU WERE GOING TO TELL ME HOW THE LiPo BATTERIES ARE MADE! FUCK WAD!!

here is some lead... cut to... now the worker is testing the voltage on the lead-acid battery. FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUU­UUUUUUUUUUUU!!!1

[madisonelectronic]

@YoLninYo Stuff the battery up your slimey ass.

[ActiveStorage]

whats the lifespan for lithium ions?

[JRBeaman]

This is a LiPo, battery not a Lithium Ion.

[cyberlord64]

where can i get batteries like these?

[oceanplanet602]

@cyberlord64

Google Genasun lithium....

[09fod]

why did i watch that ?

[viru19c]

its cool ^

[pendejadafcc]

0:00-0:20 FAIL

[S3XYSAV]

lol @ "impregnated"

[wananops]

-Well, rollers seem to be part of the extruder machine, so it could be considered to be part of the extruding proccess.

-Burning batteries ain't a good idea. Neither killing animals for fun nor for fur ò.ó

[MrBananasundae]

i hate how this only plays out of my left ear

[graypony4]

@MrBananasundae It plays in stereo in 240p

[BlueBurryPimp]

@MrBananasundae Yeah I panicked and thought my headphones were broken

[antney1108]

@MrBananasundae It plays out of your ear or out of a speaker?!

[0Sebek0]

@MrBananasundae change to 240p

[Redthorn57]

@MrBananasundae wow, only had my right earbud in and was wondering wtf. until i read your comment

[BigDirtyBasterd]

@MrBananasundae what?... lol

[amrdaking1]

@MrBananasundae lol xD

[iceman977th]

@MrBananasundae I hate how only my right speaker works...no bullshit...

[agentofobservation]

Can someone please reassure me that I wont go blind if I stay away from the fire in which I plan to burn a lithium ion battery that is in a bag?

[FoamPackingPeanuts]

I'm sure that this is more of a lithium iron phosphate battery. Normal Li-Ion batteries do not use metal lithium.

[chestybondrod]

Denmark lol

[chestybondrod]

Lithium is extremely unstable I wounder how they stop it from reacting with the air ?

Unbelievably it is the lightest metal element , having the atomic number of 3

[hanzithaking]

@chestybondrod its a lithium ion that meens it alredy has reacted with something

[chestybondrod]

@hanzithaking means not meens and already not alredy thank you for the info any mate.

[hanzithaking]

@chestybondrod i know my english sucks im from denark :P

[wakawakasplat]

3:35 Is that Al Bundy?!

[scheissaufGOOG2E]

discovery channel is aweson.but we dont get it her in germany.thats so fucked up

[Hauntzor]

Why do they make the lithium metal as a huge fucking cylinder if they're just going to end up flattening it anyway?

[Cthrilla]

Cool I totally Emailed a request for this topic! Thanks How its made!

[LikeAVideo]

1:19 why this is isn't corroded?

[cyrex686]

Weird to see white guys doing this, I was under the impression that production was limited to South Korea, Taiwan, and maybe Japan.

[laughomaniac]

woot 140,000 =D

[tracemaster100]

the announcer almost burped at 2:29

[ExertionMusic]

excellent video! I guess it shows why it's so hard to fix lithium batteries when they wear out (unlike e.g. lead-acid)

[DavidRockin1]

do if i take 1 apart i will c that???

[HATZld]

actually batteries date back to ancient egyptions

[DjinnJuggler]

damn, that's alot of lithium in the begining..

[MissySancha]

It annoys me how americans say one hundred four, and not one hundred AND four...

[JRoque250]

Ok, let me try this reply again since YoutTube is screwing up: @MissySancha That's because 100 AND 4 = 4, not 104. It's also because 104 is one number not 100, and then 4. We also like to annoy people by saying One Oh Four. Cheers!

[ericksonm77]

This video title is very deceiving and should be removed. Virtually no commercial Li ion (rechargeable) batteries use Li metal as the anode. Basically all Li ion batteries on the market use graphite + binder coated onto Cu foil. Li comes from the cathode and is intercalated into the graphite on the first charge. Li metal anodes are not used because they have significant issues related to cycle life and safety.

[FilmPA]

Bogus. Batteries were made WAY before that dude. Japan or China or something hundreds of years ago.

[ShinobiBoiX]

dat ductility :D

[ooaquaspiritoo]

when was this video made?

[OK2BCK]

great video!

[samgee2007]

@Captainbob25202000 -Chinese rule the world!..don't talk bad about Chinese.Now no 1 economy in the world is China! lancau!

[straightpipediesel]

@Captainbob25202000 The company in the video is Avestor. Look it up, these batteries exploded and the company went bankrupt 4 years ago. Lousy canadian junk.

[Captainbob25202000]

@straightpipediesel i agree ...i retract my previous statement....but chinese batteries have plenty of defects too

[tobyflanderson394]

this is the production of a lithium polymer battery not a traditional lithium ion in your laptop

[domyaska]

thanks for sharing !!!!!!!!!!

[lookoutforchris]

That's a lithium polymer battery, not a lithium ion ... big difference.

[DigitalEngineeringCo]

So if this is lithium metal, why does it not oxidize at the beginning? Or could it actually be a Lithium alloy?

[fidgophone]

i was wondering the same thing when i first saw this

[cypher954]

I have a lifepo4 battery...it's great

[IRONMAIDENFAN2006]

your a moron a cap is not a battery its a buffer.... a battery stores electricity over time and holds it.. a cap dose not it may hold but its desinged to instantly dischard amongt other stuff a battery cant instantly discahrge go back to school

[danboy123098]

if you over charge it.. i guarantee that you would survive if you're near it.

[jtfunkymojo]

Haven't you guy played with RC cars or planes?

When you overcharge it, it starts to overheat and melt, which makes a big pile of burnt mess on your table. It only "explodes" when the plastic bag on it pops.

You wouldn't die even if you put your ass on it. (it really hurt, though)

[MultiSodium]

cool

[datzfast]

a dry solid polymer electrolyte in other words a plastic film

[Videomakera]

Differcence:

Lithium-ion batterys: Is a Battery with Atoms and Electronic Ions and can be stronger.

Lithium batterys: Is a Battery only with Atoms.

[datzfast]

so where is the electrochemistry done?

THIS IS A CAPASITER

[datzfast]

this is how you make a capacitor so why to they call it a battery?

[jtfunkymojo]

capacitors are batteries. They're just (really) small

[datzfast]

wrong a battery is electrochemistry, a capacitor is static charge stored on a metallic surface.

[jtfunkymojo]

They can be both. Haven't you heard of ELECTROCHEMICAL CAPACITORS?

They're just made differently to have different functions.

They're the same thing.

[datzfast]

or just a simple capacitor like this is

[DMXP100]

Lithium-ion batteries are rechargeable. Lithium-only batteries aren't.

[janice71395]

doesent lithium change coler cus of o2

[jmchien]

this video is for Lithium Batteries, not Lithium-ion batteries...

[petrolhead321]

what's the difference?

[madmax2069]

@jmchien

did you read the title.

[jmchien]

@madmax2069

sure did, the title is wrong, lithium-ion doesn't actually use pure lithium metal (showed in the extrusion process in the video)... lithium-ion uses metal oxides (e.g. LiCoO2) and is usually in a powder form coated on an electrode. Additionally, the video mentions that the lithium is used as the anode when in fact lithium-ion uses the active material as the cathode.

[Ramiromasters]

@jmchien :O

[TehRamenBrotherz]

@jmchien yeah this is likely a lipo battery... kinda dangerous to use in a car dontcha think XD

[garykempen]

@jmchien

Anode vs. Cathode depends on whether you're charging or discharging. Anode (where the anions go) is the positive terminal when charging, the negative when discharging. If you're going to correct someone, it's best to be right ;)

[OfficeThug]

@garykempen No, don't do this unless you want to fuck yourself over in a presentation or a research paper. Seriously, trying to explain charging and discharging mechanics and why we use the electrode materials we do is bad enough without having to switch the cathode and anodes around.

For all intents and purposes, the cathode is always the material that's higher in electrical potential than the anode.

[garykempen]

@OfficeThug

Once again, if you're correcting someone you should be right. Copied from Wikipedia, verified with my power electronics professor, and consistent with my memory of high school electronics: "An anode is an electrode through which electric current flows into a polarized electrical device." Enough with the negativity and get on with your understanding, Mr. Thug. I'm sorry you're confused by the definition.

[OfficeThug]

@garykempen Yes and the cathode is the opposite, and yes if you wanted to be as confusing as possible you would switch them depending on whether your external load was sourcing or sinking current. And yet our batteries always have a + and - side, gee I wonder why. It's because it is common practice to refer to the cathode and anode in terms of what they'd be if you were discharging the system. If you're going to talk about the electrochemical half-cell reactions, THEN you'll switch the terms.

[ekgomes]

thank you

[GoldfingerRedline]

The Lithium sheet is 1/100 of an inch thick... then it goes through some more rollers to thin it further.... where it is transformed at room temperature.... into a sheet .01 inch thick... WTF?

[Flatine1]

haha good point xD

[YOUCANNOTDENY]

I think he said .01 inches WIDE, which doesn't make sense even more!

[n8kedsushi]

@GoldfingerRedline into a sheet 0.01 inch WIDE. Here's your problem.

[StigTube06]

@GoldfingerRedline .01 inches wide, learn to fucking listen bitch

[Huffdev]

@StigTube06 ya only left SPEAKER for me

[thesmokingdrummer]

@GoldfingerRedline I do believe he said .01 wide good sir.

[brandon3467]

@GoldfingerRedline Inches WIDE

[sicwydyt]

@GoldfingerRedline

So it goes from 1/100 of an inch to .01 inch? ur a moron. what do u think .01 is? rofl make it outta the 5th grade??

[sincityfire]

@GoldfingerRedline basic mathematics... 1/100 = 0.01 learn your fractions...

[KLUSTERIZER]

@sincityfire He knows they're the same. But the guy in the video said "FURTHER THINNED". So how could it be the same if it was thinned even more?? That's what goldfinger is getting at.

[SaludaUser]

@GoldfingerRedline it was inches wide not thick

[KLUSTERIZER]

@SaludaUser No, in this case the guy in the video means thick. Because the length is some 650ft., the width seems like its three-quarters of a foot or so, and the thickness is a fraction of an inch. So, by .01 inches wide he really means .01 inches thick. And that's where the dilemma comes from. It was already 1/100 of an inch thick when it first came out. If it was .01 inches thick after being further thinned, then it was NOT REALLY FURTHER THINNED.

[KLUSTERIZER]

@SaludaUser Unless of course the speaker doesn't really know the exact numbers, which I'm sure is the case here.

[SaludaUser]

@KLUSTERIZER i was going based off what he said in the vid

[KLUSTERIZER]

@SaludaUser So was I.

[crazy9516]

@GoldfingerRedline lithium is a very soft metal

[Ralphgtx280]

@GoldfingerRedline he said 0.1 inches wide so still wrong but so are you