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From Smartphones to E-Cars: How Important Is the Lithium-Ion Battery?
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From Smartphones to E-Cars: How Important Is the Lithium-Ion Battery?

42 MIN · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]
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Lithium-ion cells now power everything from phones to electric cars, but this film finds one of the technology's most established uses in an unexpected place: the warehouse floor. Hamburg's Jungheinrich has run lithium-ion forklifts in intralogistics operations for over a decade, and the film follows that industry to trace the battery's full life cycle. Cameras follow lithium extraction at its source, then move into cell production facilities where manufacturers push for higher energy density and faster charging. Engineers explain how AI-controlled systems now manage large-scale energy storage and coordinate fleets of battery-powered vehicles inside warehouses. The film also weighs the harder questions the technology raises: where the raw materials come from, how limited they are, and what happens to batteries once they wear out. Recycling gets its own segment, with footage of facilities working to recover materials rather than send them to landfill. Interviews with industry figures ground the film's argument that this unglamorous corner of logistics is actually where e-mobility has been proven at scale for years.