Corinne Blanchard is the lead analyst for the Lithium & Clean Tech Group at Deutsche Bank in New York. Corinne Blanchard, Debbie Jones, Liam Fitzpatrick, Luke Templeman. dbSustainability. 3. The commercialization of the lithium-ion battery in the 1990s powered a 20-year surge in the telecommunication and computing industries, with the development of light, powerful, and rechargeable batteries.