Lithium Battery Design for Power Tools: How Engineers Build
I have spent the better part of twelve years designing cells into packs, and I still tell new engineers on my team the same thing: power tools are the most…
Lithium Battery Cost Optimization for Power Tools
Every product manager who has ever priced a cordless power tool eventually asks the same question: how do we make the battery cheaper without making it dan…
Lithium Battery Reliability for Power Tools: Lessons From
If you have ever had a cordless drill die halfway through a deck build, you already know the painful truth about lithium battery reliability for power tool…
Lithium Battery Performance for Power Tools: What Engineers
When a contractor drops a cordless impact driver and it keeps running, nobody thinks about the lithium battery inside it. As a senior lithium battery engin…
Semi-Solid State Battery Scalability and Gigafactory
The question I get from procurement teams has changed. Two years ago it was “does the chemistry work?” Now it is “can you build forty thousand cells a mont…
Semi-Solid State Battery for Electric Buses
A transit authority once handed me a specification that read, in effect: 320 km of real-world range, 14 hours on road, two mid-day charges of eight minutes…
Semi-Solid State Battery for Industrial Robotics
The first time a customer asked me to fit twice the energy into an autonomous mobile robot without changing the chassis, I told them politely that physics…
Semi-Solid State Battery for Mining and Heavy Equipment
I have commissioned battery systems in a lot of unpleasant places, but nothing rearranges your design assumptions quite like an underground haulage level 4…
Drone Battery Performance for Racing Drones: An Engineer’s
I have spent the better part of fifteen years designing and validating lithium packs, and nothing punishes a bad cell choice faster than a racing quadcopte…
Drone Battery for Surveying in Remote Terrain
The first time I lost a full survey day to batteries, I was sitting at 3,100 metres on a ridge in western Sichuan with eleven dead packs, a client waiting…