Sodium-Ion Battery Design for Street Lights: Cold-Start
I still remember the first time I pulled a failed lead-acid brick out of a street-light pole in Tianjin, twenty-three years ago. The acid had wicked up the…
Battery Solution Cost Optimization for Vehicles (2)
I have spent the last six years helping fleet operators turn a battery from a mysterious black box into a line item they can defend in front of a CFO. The…
Home Energy Storage Reliability for Cabins (2)
I have commissioned roughly 140 off-grid LFP cabins over the last nine years, and the single thing I have learned the hard way is that cabin reliability is…
Sodium-Ion Battery Cost Optimization for Forklifts (3)
Walk into a 250,000-square-foot distribution center at 2 a.m. and you can still hear the hydraulic whine of pallet jacks and the click of a battery-room wa…
Lithium Battery Design for Mobility Devices: IP-Rated
Why mobility-device battery design is its own engineering disciplineI have spent the last decade designing lithium battery packs for power-assist wheelchai…
Semi-Solid State Battery Performance for EV Packs (2)
I have spent the last three years taking semi-solid state battery packs from engineering samples to series production on three EV programmes, and the mos…
Home Energy Storage Performance for Apartments: Night
Most of the home energy storage performance claims I get asked to review were written for detached houses with big roofs, big garages, and big loads. Apart…
Semi-Solid State Battery Testing for EV Packs: Formation
In my twelve years running pack validation lines, no technology has forced me to rewrite my test plans as aggressively as semi-solid-state chemistry. When…
Lithium Battery Cost Optimization for UPS Systems: Parallel
Why UPS Lithium Cost Engineering Has to Combine Redundancy, Heat, and Warranty
Most of the lithium battery cost optimization for UPS systems conversations…
Battery Solution Reliability for Sensors: LoRaWAN
I have been specifying remote sensor packs for nearly a decade, and the failure modes I see in the field almost never match what the datasheet predicts. T…