The lithiumion battery is proving to be one of the most important innovations for the 21st century. This new technology is the cornerstone of emobility and digitalization. It’s set to play a big role in enabling the switch to renewable energies.

Without the lithiumion battery, many of the technological innovations we take for granted today would be almost inconceivable. From smartphones to ecars, the lithiumion battery can be found in almost every batterypowered device.

The technology is particularly wellestablished in one, perhaps surprising, place: the warehouse. In the field of "intralogistics,” emobility is already the order of the day. In fact, lithiumion forklifts have been hard at work in warehouses around the world for more than a decade.

The Hamburgbased Jungheinrich company is a trailblazer in this technology. But pioneering comes with challenges. Intralogistics deals with a wide variety of issues, from artificial intelligence to sustainability, resource availability, and recycling. This film explores the extraction of lithium, the production of stateoftheart cells and their use in vehicles and AIcontrolled largescale energy storage. It highlights the latest developments in this promising and rapidly advancing field.

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