Semi-Solid State Battery Integration for EV Packs
Over the last three years I have watched the conversation around the semi-solid state battery shift from chemistry to packaging. The cells themselves ar…
Semi-Solid State Battery Safety for EV Packs
After fifteen years on the pack line, I can tell you the safety conversation changes the moment you remove most of the free liquid solvent from a cell. As…
Semi-Solid State Battery Design for EV Packs (Guide)
Why I Keep Coming Back to Semi-Solid State Battery Design
When people ask me what the most practical leap in EV energy storage looks like this year, my ans…
Semi-Solid State Battery Manufacturing for EV Packs
I have spent the better part of a decade on lithium-ion pack lines, and the first time I walked a quasi-solid cell line I expected a revolution. What I fou…
Semi-Solid State Battery Testing for EV Packs: My Full
I have spent the last eleven years building and validating lithium battery packs, and I can tell you that nothing exposed the gaps in my old test plan fast…
Semi-Solid State Battery Cost Optimization for EV Packs (2)
I have spent the better part of a decade on both sides of the battery cost conversation — designing quasi-solid cells on the lab bench and, more rece…
Semi-Solid State Battery Reliability for EV Packs (Guide)
When an OEM qualifies a new cell chemistry, the lab cycle-life number is the easy part. The hard part — and the part that actually decides warranty cost, b…
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…
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…
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…