Battery Solution for Smart Metering and AMI Networks
When a utility wants to cut truck rolls by 80% and turn a 10-million-meter fleet into a remotely managed endpoint grid, every node becomes only as reliabl…
Semi-Solid State Battery Cold Start Performance
I have lost count of the number of cold-chamber mornings I have spent watching a battery pack that worked perfectly at 25°C collapse into a few hundred…
Home Energy Storage for Multi-Family Buildings
In fifteen years of designing stationary lithium battery systems, the projects I get called back to audit are almost never the single-family garage install…
Semi-Solid State Battery Fast Charge Capability and Limits
Pulling 4C out of a semi-solid state pack sounds like a spec sheet triumph until you watch a thin slice of anode under a reference electrode and see lithiu…
Home Energy Storage Payback Period Calculation Guide
After twenty years of sizing lithium battery systems, I have reviewed hundreds of payback spreadsheets submitted by distributors and homeowners, and I woul…
Lithium Battery Testing for Power Tools: Pulse-Current
In eleven years of designing and validating lithium battery packs for cordless tools, I have watched more projects fail at the validation bench than at the…
Battery Solution for Refrigerated Transport Units
Refrigerated transport has quietly become one of the most demanding environments a lithium battery can be asked to survive in. Over the past eleven years I…
Sodium-Ion Battery Design for Street Lights: Off-Grid
Twelve years into designing lithium battery packs for outdoor deployments, I assumed the first truly large sodium-ion fleet I would touch would be a contai…
Battery Solution for Film and Television Field Kits
I have spent more than ten years specifying and qualifying lithium cell packs for broadcast, cinema and field-production customers, and the same conversati…
Semi-Solid State Battery for High Altitude Platforms
I have spent the last four years building lithium battery packs for aircraft that never land. Not passenger jets — high altitude platform stations (HAPS):…