Semi-Solid State Battery Design for Storage: Eight-Hour
I have spent the better part of the last six years specifying packs that never move. That sounds boring until you realise that a stationary asset has to ea…
Sodium-Ion Battery Testing for Microgrids: Low-Temperature
I have spent the last six years signing off sodium-ion battery testing reports for islanded and grid-tied microgrids, from a 240 kWh village system in Inne…
Battery Solution Design for Equipment: Load-Spectrum
Most failed custom battery solution programs I have audited in the last decade lost their way at the same two pinch points: the translation step between a…
Home Energy Storage Cost Optimization for New Homes: LFP
Why new builds are a different engineering problem
When I sit down with a builder in the first week of foundation work, the conversation about home energy…
Semi-Solid State Battery Cost Optimization for Robotics (4)
After eleven years of designing lithium battery packs for warehouse robots, I have learned that the bill of materials is rarely where the money is lost. Th…
Lithium Battery Performance for Power Tools: Platform
Why “performance” is a system property, not a cell spec
I have spent more than a decade in our Shenzhen pack line, and the most common misconce…
Semi-Solid State Battery Reliability for Aerospace (4)
I have been signing off semi-solid state battery reliability for aerospace programs since the first HAPS demonstrator we flew in 2019, and I can tell you…
Lithium Battery Testing for Power Tools: Drop and Ingress
I have run a 21700 cordless-tool pack through the same gauntlet for seven years now, and every facility I visit still finds the same surprise: the cell che…
Sodium-Ion Battery Design for Street Lights: Cold-Start
I still remember the first time I pulled a failed lead-acid brick out of a street-light pole in Tianjin, twenty-three years ago. The acid had wicked up the…
Battery Solution Cost Optimization for Vehicles (2)
I have spent the last six years helping fleet operators turn a battery from a mysterious black box into a line item they can defend in front of a CFO. The…