Lithium Battery Deployment for Power Tools
Over the last decade I have spec’d, built, and field-tested lithium battery packs for everything from 12 V electric screwdrivers to 36 V rotary h…
Home Energy Storage Performance for Cabins
When most people picture a home energy storage system, they imagine a suburban garage: a 10 kWh wall unit quietly shaving a few dollars off the evenin…
Battery Solution Cost Optimization for Sensors
Why the Cell Is Rarely the Real Cost in a Sensor Deployment
When a procurement team asks me to “cost-optimize a battery solution for sensors,” the first th…
Sodium-Ion Battery Reliability for Backup Power
When a regional data center lost grid power for 41 minutes during a February ice storm, the lead-acid strings in its legacy UPS had already lost 22% of the…
Battery Solution Reliability for Equipment
Every quotation request I receive for industrial machinery starts with the same three numbers: voltage, capacity, and price. Almost nobody opens with the n…
Semi-Solid State Battery Performance for Robotics
Semi-Solid State Battery Performance for Robotics: An Engineer’s Field Guide
Over the last three years I have watched the robotics industry hit the same w…
Home Energy Storage Deployment for Apartments
When people ask me what makes apartment battery projects harder than single-family homes, I tell them it comes down to one word: shared. A home energy stor…
Lithium Battery Integration for Power Tools
As a senior lithium battery engineer at Horizon Power, I have spent the better part of a decade integrating lithium battery packs into cordless power tools…
Semi-Solid State Battery Performance for Aerospace
As a senior lithium battery engineer at Horizon Power, I have spent the last decade moving battery chemistries from the lab bench to flight-certified hardw…
Battery Solution Reliability for Vehicles
When a fleet manager calls me about a failing pack, the problem is almost never the cells. After fourteen years building energy storage systems, I have lea…