Sodium Ion Battery for Energy Storage: Is It Ready for Homes
Over the past eighteen months I have been asked the same question by at least a dozen home-energy integrators: “Karl, is a sodium ion battery energy storag…
Applications of Semi-Solid State Batteries Beyond Drones
When most people hear about semi-solid state battery technology, their minds jump straight to long-endurance drones and high-altitude logistics. That is un…
Semi-Solid State Battery Energy Density
As a senior lithium battery engineer who has spent the last decade on cell chemistry and pilot-line scale-up, I keep coming back to one number when buyers…
Semi-Solid State Battery vs Solid-State
Every month I get the same question from procurement managers and drone OEMs: what is the real difference between a semi-solid state battery and a solid st…
Semi-Solid State Battery Manufacturing Challenges and Cost
Over the past nine years on the production floor, first as a cell process engineer and now as Senior Lithium Battery Engineer at Horizon Power, I have watc…
How to Source a Reliable Lithium Battery Manufacturer in
I am Karl Huang, a senior lithium battery engineer with more than a decade spent inside Chinese cell plants, pack houses, and customer return labs. If you…
LFP vs NCM Battery: Choosing Chemistry for Your Product
After more than a decade on the factory floor and in the lab at Horizon Power, I have lost count of how many times a customer has asked me the same decepti…
Lithium Battery Safety Standards
When a lithium battery leaves our production line in Shenzhen and heads to a customer in Germany or California, the chemistry inside it is only half the st…
Lithium Ion vs Lithium Polymer Battery
Every month in our Horizon Power engineering lab, an OEM customer sends the same question: “Should we use a lithium ion vs lithium polymer cell for our new…
Custom Drone Battery Packs
Every few weeks a prospective OEM sends me a CAD drawing of an airframe that simply will not accept a standard brick-shaped cell. As Karl Huang, Senior Lit…