Sodium-Ion Battery Cathode Materials: Layered Oxides vs (2)
Why Cathode Choice Defines a Sodium-Ion Battery
When I spec a sodium-ion battery for a stationary storage or low-speed mobility customer, the conversation…
Battery Solution for Portable Military Communications
A manpack radio that goes silent in the third hour of a 24-hour mission is a logistics failure before it is an electronics failure. In my work at Horizon P…
Semi Solid State Battery Electrolyte Formulation
I have spent the better part of a decade standing next to coating heads, dry rooms and formation
cabinets, and if there is one lesson that separates a work…
Lithium Battery for Medical Carts and Hospital Equipment
When a clinical floor manager asks me to size a lithium battery for medical carts and hospital equipment, the conversation never starts with energy density…
Home Energy Storage and EV Charger Load Balancing
I have lost count of how many times a customer has called me after the electrician left. The panel was full, the utility had quoted a four-figure service u…
Lithium Battery for Golf Carts and Resort Fleets
I have spent the better part of fourteen years specifying traction packs for everything from airport ground support equipment to agricultural utility vehic…
Sodium-Ion Battery Low Temperature Discharge Behavior
Every winter I get the same call from integrators in Harbin, Kazakhstan, and the Canadian prairies: their lithium iron phosphate packs lose so much usable…
Battery Solution for Autonomous Mobile Inspection Robots
I have spent the last decade specifying cells and packs for machines that are expected to work the night shift without a driver, and autonomous inspection…
Home Energy Storage Sizing for Whole Home Backup
I have lost count of how many times a homeowner has called me after buying a home energy storage
system that turned out to be the wrong size. The pattern i…
Semi-Solid State Battery Cell Formatting and Stack Pressure
I have spent most of my career on the manufacturing side of lithium cells, and if there is one lesson the last three years have hammered home, it is this:…