Project completion: “Innovation Laboratory for Battery Logistics in E-Mobility”
After more than three years, the research project “Innovation Laboratory for Battery Logistics in E-Mobility” (InnoLogBat) is coming to an end. At a closing event on March 18, 2025, researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Material Flow and Logistics IML took stock and presented the concepts and solutions developed in the project for battery logistics of the future.
Although it has long been clear that e-mobility will shape the future of transportation, there are still many unanswered questions surrounding lithium-ion batteries. The InnoLogBat project is dedicated to precisely this problem: What might the safe and resource-efficient handling of batteries look like in a circular economy?
After three and a half years, the project, funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), concluded with a networking event for all project participants, representatives from business and science, and the interested public. The participating scientists presented research results from the areas of storage, transport, and supply chain, as well as further developments from various transfer projects. One highlight was a newly developed demonstrator designed to raise awareness of the importance of battery logistics as a cornerstone of e-mobility.
Dr. Arkadius Schier, project manager of the Innovation Lab, at the network meeting, explained:
Battery logistics is a cornerstone for the successful expansion of e-mobility.
“Even though we have taken a major step toward sustainable and safe e-mobility with our research results, such as the battery passport or computed tomography lithium-ion battery analysis, there is still much to do and further research needed. Only through the interaction of technological progress, economic measures, and social changes can we shape the drive of the future in a circular economy,”
Among the successes of InnoLogBat is the “BATSAFE” project. Within this project, researchers developed a “Solution Navigator,” a training platform, and a universal guideline for the storage and transport of high-voltage batteries for commercial vehicles, where batteries must be even more efficient. Another milestone was the development of a battery passport within the “LIBELLE” transfer project. The passport enables seamless documentation of the battery life cycle, from production through use to reuse and recycling.
The project:
The Innovation Laboratory for Battery Logistics in E-Mobility was a research project in which the Fraunhofer IML worked together with the University of Leipzig and the Fraunhofer
The Heinrich Hertz Institute (HHI), Remondis Industrie Service, Rhenus Automotive, and Mercedes-Benz Energy researched technologies and processes for a sustainable circular economy for lithium-ion batteries. The project ran from October 2021 to March 2025 and was funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMWi) with approximately €5.2 million as part of the “Zukunftsfonds Automobil – MobilKreis” funding program. The total project volume was €6.4 million.
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