 Mercedes-Benz has been moving people and goods around the planet for over 130 years now. Every day we ask ourselves, how can we bring the future into reality? This is at the heart of who we are, and this can only be achieved by continuously innovating. Right now, our industry is in a transition to a new age. It's time to reduce our impact on the planet. Our goal is for the entire Mercedes-Benz vehicle fleet to be carbon neutral by 2039. That means implementing electric driving in all divisions as a priority. For that, we need to focus on next generation battery technology. The thing that has always held battery technology back, and this will sound strange, is that we don't really know what goes on inside of batteries. This thing is a mystery. Sure, we know how to make batteries, but we can't actually see what's happening at a molecular level inside the battery while it's working. A battery is more like a complex ecosystem than a machine that spits out electricity. It's chaos in there. And to make things even harder, there isn't a supercomputer on the planet right now that could accurately simulate what's going on in there either. Simulating this at the molecular level of detail involves accounting for a tremendous number of electron interactions, each electron influencing the other in complex ways. Accurately simulating electron interactions in the simplest molecules takes many days on the most powerful supercomputers on the planet. And as for the reactions in a battery, forget it. So what we have to do is approximate the chemical reactions in a battery using classical algorithms. They're not very good and average out a lot of reactions and make a lot of assumptions, but they're all we have. So designing more efficient batteries is a laborious process of trial and error that takes decades. Mercedes-Benz has turned to IBM Quantum to explore how we can simulate the chemical reactions in batteries more accurately. IBM Quantum computers are built with quantum mechanical systems at their heart. They're designed to simulate quantum systems such as chemical reactions far more efficiently than classical supercomputers. With these simulations, we're exploring new materials to create more efficient batteries. At Mercedes-Benz, we continue to advance our development of current and future high-performance lithium-ion batteries, but also have a close look at what's beyond lithium-ion. We strive to explore cutting-edge technologies for our customers in support of the high-volume electrification for our entire model portfolio. Today, IBM already has over 20 quantum computers running across the world, running over one billion executions a day on the IBM cloud. We've opened this technology up so everyone can sign up and experiment with it. So far, that means over 300,000 users. Simulating the actual behavior of a battery using quantum computing could unlock a remarkable opportunity. We need new ways to solve problems that we previously couldn't tackle. And with quantum computing, we're on our way.