Sodium-Ion Battery Presodiation and Sodium Compensation
Sodium-ion cells lose a measurable slice of their sodium inventory during the very first charge. On the production line that loss shows up as a first-cycle…
Semi-Solid State Battery Post-Mortem Failure Analysis
When a semi-solid state battery comes back from the field, the most expensive mistake is calling it dead, scrapping it, and moving on. Every returned cell…
Lithium Battery for Film Lighting: Flicker-Free Power Budget
On a documentary shoot in Oman we lost forty minutes to a fault that was neither the fixture nor the camera. Six 300 W LED panels were pulling from a 26 V…
Home Energy Storage Battery Passport and Resale Value
After most of a decade designing lithium battery packs for residential and light industrial customers, I have noticed that the first question serious buyer…
Battery Solution for Port Ground Support Equipment
Container terminals are diesel’s last stronghold, and that is exactly why they are now the fastest-electrifying segment in material handling. A port ground…
Semi-Solid State Battery Peak Power for Performance EVs
In eleven years of specifying lithium battery packs for vehicle programmes, the performance-car brief is still the one that surprises people. Nobody asks m…
Semi-Solid State Battery Interface Wetting and Impedance
In fifteen years of building lithium cells I have watched more semi-solid state battery programs fail on a step nobody photographs than on chemistry itself…
Semi-Solid State Battery Formation Cycling and Yield
Formation is the step where a stack of coated electrodes and a semi-solid electrolyte stops being a set of parts and becomes a battery. Nearly everything I…
Lithium Battery Enclosure IP Rating Selection
“IP rating” is the line item added to a lithium battery enquiry last, and it is the one that comes back to bite. In fourteen years of pack programmes I hav…
Smart Panel Load Shedding for Home Energy Storage
A smart panel turns a home energy storage system from a dumb backup box into an energy manager. The battery stores kilowatt-hours, but the panel decides wh…