Best Drone Battery for Cold Weather Operations (-20°C an (2)
When I first started designing lithium battery packs for commercial UAVs a decade ago, most operators assumed cold was simply a nuisance. After running win…
Sodium Ion Battery for E-Bike and Storage Applications
I’m Karl Huang, Senior Lithium Battery Engineer at Horizon Power. Over the past twelve years I have qualified dozens of lithium-ion packs for drones, e-mob…
Semi-Solid State Battery Cost Reduction Roadmap
IntroductionAs a senior lithium battery engineer who has spent the last decade scaling pouch and prismatic cells on production lines across Asia, I get ask…
Drone Battery Shipping Regulations
Every engineer who has ever packaged a drone battery for a customer overseas knows the sinking feeling of a shipment bounced back at the cargo gate. After…
Lithium Battery Shipping Compliance
Over the last twelve years on the production floor, I have shipped thousands of lithium battery packs to customers in North America, Europe, and Australia….
What Is a Semi-Solid State Battery and How Does It Work
Over the last decade on the production floor and in the cell lab at Horizon Power, one question keeps coming back from our B2B customers: what is semi-soli…
Sodium Ion Battery Buyer Guide
As a Senior Lithium Battery Engineer at Horizon Power, I have spent the last decade qualifying cells for drones, home energy storage, and industrial packs….
Lithium Battery Pack Manufacturing
As a senior lithium battery engineer, I have walked through more pack assembly lines than I can count—from compact workshop cells in Shenzhen to fully auto…
Drone Battery Cycle Life
I still remember the first fleet of mapping drones we qualified back in 2019. The data sheet promised “500 cycles” on every drone battery, yet the operator…
How to Choose the Right Drone Battery for Long-Range
Long-range surveying turns the drone battery for long-range surveying into the single most important component on the airframe. When a mapping or inspectio…