Sodium-Ion Battery Cost Optimization for Forklifts: An
I manage battery programs for a living, and no application teaches you about cost faster than a material handling fleet. A forklift battery is not a purcha…
Battery Solution Manufacturing for Sensors: An Engineer’ (2)
I have spent the better part of a decade on production lines for industrial IoT, and the hardest lesson is counterintuitive: a sensor battery almost never…
Home Energy Storage Maintenance for Farms
Why Farms Break Home Battery Systems Faster Than Any Other Residential Site
I have commissioned home energy storage systems in coastal villas, mountain cab…
Semi-Solid State Battery Performance for EV Packs: An
Why I Put Semi-Solid Cells Into an EV Test Pack
I have spent fourteen years designing lithium battery packs for drones, robotics, and light electric vehicl…
Lithium Battery Maintenance for UPS Systems
If you run a server room, a telecom shelter, or any 24/7 standby load, you already know that a UPS is only as good as the lithium battery pack that lives i…
Battery Solution Testing for Robotics: An Engineer’s
A mobile robot that drops out of a customer demo is rarely the controller’s fault. After roughly nine years of testing custom battery solutions for industr…
Home Energy Storage Maintenance for New Homes
I have commissioned more than forty home energy storage systems in new construction over the last three years, and the pattern is always the same. The crew…
Semi-Solid State Battery Maintenance for Storage
I’m Karl Huang, a senior lithium battery engineer who has spent the last decade commissioning and servicing stationary energy storage fleets. Half of my se…
Sodium-Ion Battery Reliability for Backup Power: An
Over the past eleven years I have specified, tested, and audited backup power batteries for telecom cabinets, hospital transfer switches, data-room UPS st…
Lithium Battery Maintenance for Solar Kits
Off-grid and hybrid solar kits live or die on how well the lithium battery bank is looked after. I have walked into a cabin in northern Vermont in February…