Semi-Solid State Battery Performance for EV Packs (Guide)
As a senior lithium battery engineer, I have spent the last decade qualifying traction packs for passenger EVs, and the single question OEMs ask most often…
Sodium-Ion Battery Performance for Microgrids: Duty-Cycle
When buyers ask me to size a battery for a microgrid, the first thing I tell them is that microgrid duty cycles are not EV duty cycles. A delivery van disc…
Battery Solution Design for Robotics
I am Karl Huang, Senior Lithium Battery Engineer at Horizon Power. Over the last nine years I have led the design of more than forty production battery pac…
Lithium Battery Performance for Power Tools: Pulse-Duty
When a contractor drives a 40V brushless circular saw through a stack of OSB and the motor bogs down on the last third of the cut, the complaint is always…
Semi-Solid State Battery Design for EV Packs
Why Semi-Solid Changes the EV Pack Design Envelope
When I first started specifying lithium-ion packs for electric vehicles a decade ago, the pack was treat…
Battery Solution Cost Optimization for Robotics: A
I have quoted, re-quoted and post-mortemed enough robotics power programmes to know where the money actually leaks, and it is almost never the cell price….
Battery Solution Reliability for Robotics: A Field
When a fleet of autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) leaves our test bay at Horizon Power, the spec sheet is never what keeps the customer’s line running. I hav…
Battery Solution Performance for Robotics: A Field
When a procurement manager asks me for a “robotics battery,” they are usually picturing a laptop cell in a bigger box. After fifteen years specifying custo…
Semi-Solid State Battery Cost Optimization for EV Packs
When procurement teams ask me to price an EV pack, the conversation almost always starts and ends at cell-level $/kWh. After fifteen years building lithium…
Semi-Solid State Battery Reliability for EV Packs
Why EV Pack Reliability Starts With the Electrolyte Architecture
When fleet procurement teams ask me to qualify a new cell chemistry, the first question I…