Sodium-Ion Battery for Construction Site Temporary Power
Diesel generators still dominate temporary site power: cheap to rent, familiar, and nobody was ever fired for ordering one. But after twelve years building…
Sodium-Ion Battery for Electric Boats and Ferries
Sodium-ion battery packs have crossed the line from laboratory curiosity to a genuine engineering option for short-route electric passenger vessels. Naval…
Sodium-Ion Battery for Rural Water Pumping
I have spent more than a decade specifying battery systems for sites where the grid is weak or absent, and few loads punish a battery bank the way rural wa…
Sodium-Ion Battery for Cold Chain Pharmaceutical Backup
The first cold chain backup project I was pulled into did not fail because the battery was too small. It failed because nobody had written down what the ba…
Sodium-Ion Battery Black Mass Recovery and Yield
When we commissioned the recovery line for our sodium-ion pilot cells last spring, the first surprise had nothing to do with chemistry. It was the accounti…
Sodium-Ion Battery Passport and EU Compliance
What the EU Battery Passport Actually Requires
I have spent the last three years shipping sodium-ion and lithium battery packs into European industrial pro…
Sodium-Ion Battery Transport and UN38.3 Compliance
When the first batch of our 15S sodium-ion packs left the plant, the freight forwarder returned a checklist with one line highlighted: “UN 38.3 test summar…
Sodium-Ion Battery for Utility Peak Shaving
Peak shaving looks like the easiest assignment you can give a battery. Charge while the grid is quiet, discharge while the feeder is loaded, and let the me…
Sodium-Ion Battery for Two-Wheeler Fleets
In the last eighteen months, fleet operators from Jakarta to Nairobi have asked me the same question in almost the same words: can a sodium-ion battery sur…
Sodium-Ion Battery Safety Profile and Abuse Testing
Over the last three years I have run abuse campaigns on more than forty sodium-ion cell builds in our own test house — 18650 and 26700 cylindricals, 20 Ah…