Sodium-Ion Battery for Golf Cart and Low-Speed EV Fleets
Golf carts and low-speed electric vehicles live a harder life than their gentle reputation suggests. I am Karl Huang, Senior Lithium Battery Engineer at Ho…
IEEE 1547 Interconnection Requirements for Home Energy
As a Senior Lithium Battery Engineer at Horizon Power, I have watched more than a few homeowners sit through the moment their brand new home energy storage…
Semi-Solid State Battery Current Collector Foil Selection
Every electrode in a lithium battery does two jobs: store lithium, and hand the electron to the outside circuit. The first job gets all the attention in ce…
Battery Solution Performance for Towers
Tower sites have a habit of punishing battery systems. Whether it is a telecom tower on a ridge line, a mobile light tower on a highway project, or a commu…
Sodium-Ion Battery Teardown and Field Service Repair
When a sodium-ion battery pack comes back from a duty cycle that did not go as planned, the fastest path to a root cause is not a datasheet. It is a teardo…
Lithium Battery for Mobility Scooters and Powered
When I started designing lithium battery packs for powered mobility aids in 2014, most scooters still ran on sealed lead-acid blocks that weighed more than…
Home Energy Storage Communication Protocols Explained
When a homeowner asks me why their new battery will not charge, nine times out of ten the problem is not the cells. It is the conversation between the batt…
Sodium-Ion Battery Grid Interconnection and Inverter Sizing
When a customer asks me to size a grid-tied sodium-ion battery system, the inverter is almost never the first thing I calculate. The first thing is the int…
Semi-Solid State Battery Electrode Slurry Mixing and
When engineers talk about semi-solid state batteries, most of the attention goes to energy density numbers and the promise of safer chemistry. In my work a…
Lithium Battery for Electric Pallet Jacks and Walkie
Why Walkie Pallet Jacks Deserve a Battery Built Differently
I have spent the better part of fifteen years on warehouse floors, not just in the lab, and the…