Lithium Battery for Cordless Hedge Trimmers
As a senior lithium battery engineer, I have spent years designing packs for outdoor power equipment. Cordless hedge trimmers place unusual demands on a li…
UL 9540A Fire Testing for Home Energy Storage Systems
When a homeowner asks me whether a residential battery cabinet is safe to mount against a garage wall, I rarely answer with chemistry alone. The decisive e…
Battery Solution for Concrete Mixer and Pump Trucks
As a senior lithium battery engineer at Horizon Power, I have spent the last decade on the dirty, demanding side of electrification: construction sites. Co…
Lithium Battery for Electric Gate Openers and Barrier Arms
At Horizon Power we have shipped lithium packs for access-control gear for more than a decade, and I still get the same call from installers in January: th…
Semi-Solid State Battery Cell Stacking and Lamination
As a senior lithium battery engineer at Horizon Power, I have spent the last decade moving pouch and prismatic cells from the lab bench to fully automated…
Sodium-Ion Battery for Emergency Lighting and Exit Systems
As a senior lithium battery engineer at Horizon Power, I have spent the last decade specifying standby power for life-safety systems. Emergency lighting an…
Manufactured Home Energy Storage: Safe Sizing and Code Path
Over the past three years I have field-tested residential battery systems, and manufactured and mobile homes carry constraints that site-built houses simpl
Battery Solution for Electric Mining Haul Trucks
Moving a 240-ton haul truck up a mine bench used to mean burning diesel by the hundreds of liters per cycle. As a senior lithium battery engineer at Horizo…
Lithium Battery for Electric Winches: Sizing and Duty Cycles
I am Karl Huang, Senior Lithium Battery Engineer at Horizon Power. For ten years I have specified lithium battery packs for recovery, marine, and industria…
Semi-Solid State Battery Calendering and Porosity Control
At Horizon Power, I spend a lot of time on the electrode production floor. Calendering is one of the steps that separates a good semi-solid state battery f…