Lithium Battery for Electric Outboard and Small Craft
Most electric outboard conversations start with a fuel bill. A centre console burning 60 litres of petrol on a day’s running is a boat that gets used less…
Battery Solution for Satellite Ground Station Backup
I have spent enough nights in equipment shelters to know that a satellite ground station is one of the least forgiving places to lose power. A low Earth o…
Home Energy Storage Winter Performance and Derating
I install home energy storage in cold-climate homes and every November my service inbox fills with the same three questions: “Why does my battery die at th…
Lithium Battery for Vending and Unattended Retail
After twelve years designing lithium battery packs for commercial equipment, I can tell you that most vending machines never need one — the machine is plug…
Sodium-Ion Battery for Two-Wheeler Fleets
In the last eighteen months, fleet operators from Jakarta to Nairobi have asked me the same question in almost the same words: can a sodium-ion battery sur…
Battery Solution for Water and Wastewater Monitoring
I have spent more than a decade specifying industrial battery packs for remote and unmanned sites, and water infrastructure keeps teaching me the same less…
Home Energy Storage Tax Credits and Incentive Programs
I have spent eleven years specifying residential and light commercial lithium battery systems, and the single most expensive mistake I see has nothing to d…
Lithium Battery Cell Balancing: Passive vs Active Methods
Every lithium battery pack I have torn down after a field failure tells the same story in the data log: the cells did not fail together. One cell drifted,…
Lithium Battery Deep Cycle vs Starter Applications
Most battery bank failures I investigate come down to one thing: the wrong architecture. Not a bad brand, not a defective batch — the wrong build. A cran…
Sodium-Ion Battery Safety Profile and Abuse Testing
Over the last three years I have run abuse campaigns on more than forty sodium-ion cell builds in our own test house — 18650 and 26700 cylindricals, 20 Ah…