Battery Solution Manufacturing for Robotics
I have spent the better part of fifteen years standing next to pack assembly lines, and the pattern in robotics is always the same: the electrical design p…
Sodium-Ion Battery Reliability for Microgrids: A
When a microgrid owner asks me how reliable a sodium-ion battery bank will be over its ten-year life, my honest answer is that reliability is not a proper…
Battery Solution Testing for Robotics: DVP&R, Duty-Cycle
When a robotics customer tells me their packs “passed all the battery tests” and then reports units dropping offline at 60% state of charge on the night sh…
Semi-Solid State Battery Performance for EV Packs (Guide)
As a senior lithium battery engineer, I have spent the last decade qualifying traction packs for passenger EVs, and the single question OEMs ask most often…
Sodium-Ion Battery Performance for Microgrids: Duty-Cycle
When buyers ask me to size a battery for a microgrid, the first thing I tell them is that microgrid duty cycles are not EV duty cycles. A delivery van disc…
Battery Solution Design for Robotics
I am Karl Huang, Senior Lithium Battery Engineer at Horizon Power. Over the last nine years I have led the design of more than forty production battery pac…
Lithium Battery Performance for Power Tools: Pulse-Duty
When a contractor drives a 40V brushless circular saw through a stack of OSB and the motor bogs down on the last third of the cut, the complaint is always…
Semi-Solid State Battery Design for EV Packs
Why Semi-Solid Changes the EV Pack Design Envelope
When I first started specifying lithium-ion packs for electric vehicles a decade ago, the pack was treat…
Battery Solution Cost Optimization for Robotics: A
I have quoted, re-quoted and post-mortemed enough robotics power programmes to know where the money actually leaks, and it is almost never the cell price….
Battery Solution Reliability for Robotics: A Field
When a fleet of autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) leaves our test bay at Horizon Power, the spec sheet is never what keeps the customer’s line running. I hav…