Sodium-Ion Battery Recycling: Why It Is Simpler Than Lithium
Over the last decade I have stood on both sides of the battery industry: running lithium battery pack lines and, more recently, qualifying sodium-ion batte…
Sodium-Ion Battery for Port and Crane Electrification
Why Ports Are Racing to Electrify Cranes Right Now
If you have ever stood at a quayside at 2 a.m., you know the soundtrack of a container terminal: diesel…
Sodium-Ion Battery Cost per kWh vs LFP
I have spent the last decade on factory floors and inside qualification labs, and if there is one question that now dominates every procurement call I take…
Sodium-Ion Battery for Telecom Remote Sites
I still remember the first time I climbed a 45-meter lattice tower in the mountains of Sichuan to swap a dead lead-acid bank at a remote base-station. The…
Sodium-Ion Battery Energy Density Outlook
Every few months a new headline promises that the sodium-ion battery will close the gap with lithium overnight. After fifteen years on the bench — fi…
Sodium-Ion Battery for Residential Storage
When I first started hearing about sodium-ion battery residential storage pilots two years ago, my instinct as a lithium battery engineer was skepticism. H…
Sodium-Ion Battery Safety Testing
Over the past three years I have signed off on more battery safety dossiers than I care to count. I’m Karl Huang, Senior Lithium Battery Engineer at Horizo…
Sodium-Ion Battery for Forklift and Warehouse Equipment
Every warehouse I have walked through in the last two years has the same quiet problem: the battery room. Lead-acid fleets bleed maintenance hours on water…
Sodium-Ion Battery Manufacturing Retrofit
When I walk a customer through a sodium-ion battery project, the question that comes up faster than chemistry is almost always plant-related: do we build a…
Sodium-Ion Battery for Cold Regions
As a senior lithium battery engineer, I have spent the better part of fifteen years putting cells through abuse tests, drop tests, and month-long soak tria…