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    "type": "Term",
    "label": "Industrial vehicle batteries",
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      "id": "industrial-vehicle-battery",
      "name": "Industrial vehicle batteries",
      "aka": [
        "forklift battery",
        "AGV battery",
        "AMR battery",
        "motive power battery"
      ],
      "section": "topic-applications",
      "definition": "Batteries for forklifts, warehouse tugs, automated guided vehicles and mobile robots. Lead–acid forklift batteries are deliberately heavy, doubling as counterweight, and are swapped or recharged over a shift break; LFP replacements allow opportunity charging in short pauses, which suits robots that dock themselves between tasks.",
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        "battery-swapping"
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      "url": "https://lemonergy.com/learn/glossary/industrial-vehicle-battery/",
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        "lede": "Where batteries are used, and the terms used to buy, size and compare them.",
        "context": "Start with mission energy, peak power and operating conditions.",
        "example": "20 kWh total energy and a ten-second 100 kW peak constrain different design aspects.",
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      "label": "Lead–acid battery",
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        "section": "topic-other-chemistries",
        "definition": "The oldest rechargeable chemistry, lead and lead dioxide electrodes in sulfuric acid, at 2 V per cell. Heavy and short-lived in deep cycling but cheap, recyclable and good at cold cranking, it still starts most cars and backs up most telecom sites.",
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        "name": "LFP",
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          "lithium iron phosphate",
          "LiFePO₄"
        ],
        "section": "topic-chemistries",
        "definition": "A positive electrode material, LiFePO₄, giving cells a nominal voltage around 3.2 V, long cycle life and good thermal stability, but less energy per kilogram than nickel-rich oxides. Its flat voltage curve makes state of charge hard to read from voltage alone.",
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          "text": "Two LFP products can differ in format, loading, capacity and current limits. Their cathode family alone does not make them interchangeable."
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      "label": "Opportunity charging",
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          "en-route charging",
          "terminus charging"
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        "section": "topic-infrastructure",
        "definition": "Topping up a vehicle in short, high-power bursts wherever it stops anyway — a bus at its terminus or at stops, a forklift at breaks — instead of carrying enough energy for the whole day. It allows a smaller, lighter battery, at the price of frequent high-rate cycling and of chargers along the route.",
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          "pantograph-charging",
          "depot-charging",
          "fast-charging",
          "electric-bus",
          "charge-acceptance",
          "inductive-charging"
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          "EN 50272"
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        "section": "topic-standards-stationary",
        "definition": "The installation standard for secondary batteries and battery installations: ventilation, protection against electric shock, and the layout of battery rooms. Part 2 covers stationary batteries, part 3 traction batteries for industrial trucks.",
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          "stationary-storage",
          "insulation-resistance",
          "lead-acid"
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        "name": "Battery swapping",
        "section": "topic-infrastructure",
        "definition": "Replacing a vehicle’s depleted battery with a charged one at a station in a few minutes, so the battery is charged slowly and separately. It is used for taxis, two-wheelers and some trucks; it requires standardised packs and turns the battery into a shared, leased asset.",
        "related": [
          "fast-charging",
          "micromobility",
          "second-life",
          "battery-passport",
          "iec-62840-2",
          "battery-as-a-service"
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        "url": "https://lemonergy.com/learn/glossary/battery-swapping/",
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