Semi-Solid State Battery Reliability for Aerospace: What
Aerospace is the harshest proving ground a cell will ever face. As a senior lithium battery engineer at Horizon Power, I have spent the last several years…
Sodium-Ion Battery Cost Optimization for Backup Power
Why Backup Power Is a Cost Problem, Not an Energy-Density One
When I spec a sodium-ion battery for backup duty, the first thing I tell procurement is this:…
Sodium-Ion Battery Reliability for Street Lights
Why Sodium-Ion Is Quietly Becoming My Default for Solar Street Lights
I have spent the last nine years signing off on off-grid battery packs, and for most…
Home Energy Storage Performance for Farms
Fifteen years into designing lithium battery packs, I have stopped trusting the marketing sheet the moment a home energy storage unit leaves the showroom a…
Sodium-Ion Battery Reliability for Forklifts
As a senior lithium battery engineer who has spent the last decade qualifying power packs for material-handling fleets, I get asked one question more than…
Lithium Battery Performance for UPS Systems
When I started specifying backup power fifteen years ago, the default answer for any uninterruptible power supply (UPS) was a sealed lead-acid (VRLA) block…
Lithium Battery Performance for Solar Kits
As Karl Huang, Senior Lithium Battery Engineer at Horizon Power, I have spent the better part of a decade watching portable solar kits live or die on the p…
Battery Solution Cost Optimization for Vehicles: An
Over the last twelve years I have led more than forty vehicle electrification programs as a senior lithium battery engineer, from low-speed e-mobility and…
Semi-Solid State Battery Performance for Storage
Over the past three years I have commissioned more than forty storage installations on three continents, from single-family garages in Germany to 200 kWh c…
Home Energy Storage Performance for New Homes
Why New Homes Are the Ideal Platform for Home Energy Storage
When builders ask me how to spec a battery system, my first question is always the same: is th…