Home Energy Storage for Electric Resistance Heating
Electric resistance heating is the most forgiving load in a house and one of the hardest to run affordably. Baseboard heaters, electric furnaces, and porta…
Dendrite Suppression in Semi-Solid State Batteries
During a 2023 qualification run for a 24 Ah semi-solid state pouch cell, my team at Horizon Power watched capacity collapse from 98.5 percent to 71 percent…
Sodium-Ion Battery for AGV and Automated Guided Vehicles
Automated guided vehicles live or die by battery economics. After twenty years of designing lithium packs for warehouse fleets, I have learned that the bes…
Reach Stacker Battery Solution for Container Yards
A reach stacker can lift a 45-tonne container onto the third row, and every one of those lifts starts with a violent current spike. After helping several c…
Lithium Battery for Cordless Pool Cleaners
Robotic pool cleaners have moved from corded to cordless over the last decade, and the battery pack is now the single biggest factor in how well a unit cle…
Home Energy Storage for Home Office Backup
When I set up my own home engineering office three years ago, I made the mistake many remote workers make: I trusted a small desktop UPS to keep things run…
Semi-Solid State Battery Cell-to-Pack Integration
Pack architecture decides how much of a cell’s promised performance survives in the real product. As a senior lithium battery engineer who has spent the la…
Sodium-Ion Battery for Scissor Lifts and Aerial Work Platforms
If you run a fleet of scissor lifts or aerial work platforms, you already know the weak point is rarely the lift mechanism. It is the battery. I am Karl Hu…
Battery Solution for Electric Ice Resurfacers
For most of the last seventy years, the machine that lays down a fresh sheet of ice has relied on an internal combustion engine burning propane or gasoline…
Lithium Battery for Cordless Hedge Trimmers
As a senior lithium battery engineer, I have spent years designing packs for outdoor power equipment. Cordless hedge trimmers place unusual demands on a li…