Kanish Chugh

So it's funny.

I think what you mentioned earlier,

We've had this ETF now out since August 2018 and is covering the broader spectrum of the megatrend of battery technology and also lithium as well.

So people will run into that in a bit more detail later, but people need to be aware that it's not just the technology side, it's also the resource aspect as well.

But taking a step back, you know, batteries and

of what batteries is, I was actually looking at some research and the oldest found battery was called the Baghdad battery.

It was found from 2,000 years ago.

It was basically a ceramic pot battery.

There's still not much known specifically around, you know, what it was used for, but did that

the time that the term battery was first used was actually Benjamin Franklin used in 1749 when he was doing experiments with electricity.

And the first true battery was in 1800 by an Italian physicist, Alessandro Volta.

So it was only until 1980 that you actually had this American physicist by the name of Professor John Goodenough, and he invented a new type of lithium battery.

And, you know, obviously we'll talk about why lithium is really now the future of battery technology.

But if you take that,

2000 years, essentially.

It's a bit of a slow, innovative sort of journey.

But since 1980 and since 1991, which is when Sony commercialized the first lithium battery, you've really seen this massive sort of innovation that's occurred around battery technology and specifically also on the lithium side.

Now, why is that?

So why have we just seen this big push?

I think there's two reasons for this.