Dans l'ensemble, les batteries au lithium apportent un large éventail d'avantages différents à la table qui sont difficiles – sinon impossible – reproduire de toute autre manière. Aussi communément appelées batteries au lithium-métal (du fait qu'ils utilisent le lithium comme anode), ils sont généralement capables d'offrir une densité de charge très élevée (lis: espérance de vie plus longue) than other alternatives that are on the market today.
For that reason alone, lithium batteries have a wide range of applications in our daily lives, especially for those critical in nature that we tend not to spend too much time thinking about. Specialized types of lithium batteries are used in pacemakers and other implanted medical devices, par exemple, because they can often last 15 ans (or longer) under the right circumstances. They’ve even started to replace traditional alkaline batteries in many everyday devices like clocks, digital cameras, watches, portable data assistants, and more, all thanks to that longer lifespan that minimizes the need to replace the battery over time.