Sodium-Ion Battery Cost Optimization for Forklifts (2)
In eleven years of specifying motive power for warehouse fleets, I have watched purchasing departments obsess over one number: the sticker price of the ba…
Lithium Battery Design for Mobility Devices: Wheelchair and
I have spent the last nine years specifying lithium battery packs for powered wheelchairs, Class II mobility scooters, and last-mile delivery trikes, and t…
Home Energy Storage Performance for Apartments (3)
Why Apartment-Scale Energy Storage Performance Is a Different Engineering Problem
Apartment energy storage does not behave like a single-family home batter…
Semi-Solid State Battery Performance for EV Packs: Swelling
In eight years of designing and validating traction batteries, I have watched the industry chase energy density with an almost religious intensity. But wh…
Battery Solution Reliability for Sensors: Remote Node
I have spent more than a decade specifying and validating rechargeable power systems for remote monitoring hardware, and if there is one lesson the field…
Lithium Battery Cost Optimization for UPS Systems: Runtime
Why Lithium Battery Cost Optimization for UPS Systems Matters Now
After twelve years of designing backup power systems — first with valve-regulated lead-ac…
Semi-Solid State Battery Testing for EV Packs: Abuse and
Over the past eleven years I have signed off on battery validation programs for everything from racing drones to forklift packs, and the questions I get mo…
Home Energy Storage Testing for Apartments: Balcony-Mount
When my landlord first emailed me about a tenant complaint on the sixth floor — “the battery box on the balcony is making a clicking sound at night” — I k…
Battery Solution Performance for Robotics: Peak-Power
When procurement teams ask me how to evaluate a battery solution performance robotics spec sheet, I always tell them the headline capacity number is the le…
Sodium-Ion Battery Reliability for Backup Power (2)
Over the past eleven years I have specified, tested, and commissioned backup power systems on three continents, and the failure reports I keep on my shelf…