Semi-Solid State Battery Cost Optimization for Robotics (4)
After eleven years of designing lithium battery packs for warehouse robots, I have learned that the bill of materials is rarely where the money is lost. Th…
Semi-Solid State Battery Reliability for Aerospace (4)
I have been signing off semi-solid state battery reliability for aerospace programs since the first HAPS demonstrator we flew in 2019, and I can tell you…
Semi-Solid State Battery Performance for EV Packs (2)
I have spent the last three years taking semi-solid state battery packs from engineering samples to series production on three EV programmes, and the mos…
Semi-Solid State Battery Testing for EV Packs: Formation
In my twelve years running pack validation lines, no technology has forced me to rewrite my test plans as aggressively as semi-solid-state chemistry. When…
Semi-Solid State Battery Design for Storage: Rack-Level
Why semi-solid state batteries are changing the safety case for grid storage
I have been specifying lithium battery racks for behind-the-meter and front-of…
Semi-Solid State Battery Cost Optimization for Robotics (3)
When a fleet manager asks me where the next ten percent of cost comes out of a robotics battery programme, the conversation usually drifts away from cell c…
Semi-Solid State Battery Reliability for Aerospace (3)
In fifteen years of designing lithium batteries for demanding platforms, I have learned that nothing exposes a cell chemistry faster than space. A ground…
Semi-Solid State Battery Performance for EV Packs: Swelling
In eight years of designing and validating traction batteries, I have watched the industry chase energy density with an almost religious intensity. But wh…
Semi-Solid State Battery Testing for EV Packs: Abuse and
Over the past eleven years I have signed off on battery validation programs for everything from racing drones to forklift packs, and the questions I get mo…
Semi-Solid State Battery Design for Storage: Rack-Scale
Six months ago I stood in front of a 20-foot container that was supposed to be our flagship semi-solid state storage product, and the thermal imagery told…