Lithium Battery for Electric Motorcycles and Mopeds
A two-wheeler punishes a battery pack in ways a car pack never has to. There is no cooling duct, no wash of air, no room for a liquid loop. The pack sits i…
Lithium Battery for Utility Task Vehicles and UTVs
My name is Karl Huang, senior lithium battery engineer, and a large part of my work is spent in the field with fleet owners rather than at a drawing board….
Lithium Battery for Cordless Framing Nailers
Sixteen penny nails into a stud wall do not sound like a hard job for a battery, but a cordless framing nailer is one of the harshest power tool loads we s…
Lithium Battery for Cordless Vacuum Cleaners
Inside almost every stick vacuum on the market the cordless vacuum battery is a small lithium-ion pack doing something that looks simple and is not: puttin…
Cordless Angle Grinder Battery: Surge, Runtime and Motor Load
As a senior lithium battery engineer at Horizon Power, I have torn down and rebuilt more cordless angle grinders than I can count on our test bench. The an…
Lithium Battery for Cordless Pressure Washers
When I started designing lithium packs for outdoor cleaning tools back in 2014, the biggest misconception among buyers was that any 18V drill battery would…
Lithium Battery for Cordless Rotary Hammers
When I started designing packs for cordless rotary hammers at Horizon Power, the first surprise for many of my customers was how non-uniform the load reall…
Lithium Battery for Cordless Leaf Blowers
As a senior lithium battery engineer at Horizon Power, I have spent the last twelve years tuning packs for handheld outdoor power equipment. The cordless l…
Lithium Battery for Cordless Chainsaws: Surge and Runtime
When people ask me what makes a cordless chainsaw battery different from the pack in a leaf blower or a drill, the short answer is shock load. I have spent…
Lithium Battery for Cordless Pool Cleaners
Robotic pool cleaners have moved from corded to cordless over the last decade, and the battery pack is now the single biggest factor in how well a unit cle…