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Lithium ion batteries were developed in the 1970s and became commercially available at the end of the 1990s and quickly became ubiquitous in many mobile electronic devices. Their popularity grew because of their smaller size and the fact that they had no memory effect, unlike other rechargeables of the time, most notably nickel metal hydrides.
