Home Energy Storage and EV Charger Load Balancing
I have lost count of how many times a customer has called me after the electrician left. The panel was full, the utility had quoted a four-figure service u…
Lithium Battery for Golf Carts and Resort Fleets
I have spent the better part of fourteen years specifying traction packs for everything from airport ground support equipment to agricultural utility vehic…
Sodium-Ion Battery Low Temperature Discharge Behavior
Every winter I get the same call from integrators in Harbin, Kazakhstan, and the Canadian prairies: their lithium iron phosphate packs lose so much usable…
Battery Solution for Autonomous Mobile Inspection Robots
I have spent the last decade specifying cells and packs for machines that are expected to work the night shift without a driver, and autonomous inspection…
Home Energy Storage Sizing for Whole Home Backup
I have lost count of how many times a homeowner has called me after buying a home energy storage
system that turned out to be the wrong size. The pattern i…
Semi-Solid State Battery Cell Formatting and Stack Pressure
I have spent most of my career on the manufacturing side of lithium cells, and if there is one lesson the last three years have hammered home, it is this:…
Lithium Battery for Marine Trolling Motors
I have spent a good part of the last twelve years on the electrical side of small craft — bass boats in the south, aluminium skiffs in the Pacific Northwes…
Sodium-Ion Battery for Residential Solar Self-Consumption
I have spent the last decade specifying cells for UAV packs, telecom backup strings and, more recently, for the garage wall. In the last three years the q…
Battery Solution for Smart Metering and AMI Networks
When a utility wants to cut truck rolls by 80% and turn a 10-million-meter fleet into a remotely managed endpoint grid, every node becomes only as reliabl…
Semi-Solid State Battery Cold Start Performance
I have lost count of the number of cold-chamber mornings I have spent watching a battery pack that worked perfectly at 25°C collapse into a few hundred…