Home Energy Storage Reliability for Cabins: Cold-Climate
I have spent the better part of twelve years specifying cells for products that live indoors, and the last six of those years watching what happens when th…
Semi-Solid State Battery Performance for EV Packs: Winter
Every winter I get the same message from a fleet manager: “Karl, our vans lose 60 km of range when the temperature drops to -8 °C, and the fast-charge win…
Home Energy Storage Performance for Apartments (2)
When an apartment dweller calls me about home energy storage performance for apartments, the conversation almost never starts with kilowatt-hours. It start…
Lithium Battery Reliability for Solar Kits: Field Failure
I am Karl Huang, Senior Lithium Battery Engineer at Horizon Power. In the last nine years I have signed off roughly 320 lithium battery packs that ended up…
Battery Solution Reliability for Sensors: Remote Monitoring
Hi, I’m Karl Huang, a senior lithium battery engineer at Horizon Power. Over the last eight years I have shipped tens of thousands of custom battery soluti…
Sodium-Ion Battery Safety for Forklifts: Thermal,
After eleven years designing lithium and sodium-ion packs for material handling equipment, I have welded more forklift battery busbars than I can count, an…
Battery Solution Performance for Robotics: Duty-Cycle,
When an autonomous mobile robot, an AGV, or a collaborative arm loses its shift to a low state-of-charge cutoff in the middle of a tote transfer, the root…
Sodium-Ion Battery Manufacturing for Backup Power: Yield,
I have spent the last four years walking sodium-ion battery manufacturing lines side by side with our production managers, and the conversations we keep ha…
Home Energy Storage Design for Farms: A Practical (2)
Why Farms Need a Different Home Energy Storage Design
Most off-the-shelf home energy storage cabinets are designed for suburban garages and climate-contro…
Semi-Solid State Battery Testing for EV Packs: An
Why Traction Testing for a Semi-Solid State Battery Is Its Own Discipline
I have spent the last decade running validation campaigns for high-energy tractio…