Semi-Solid State Battery Thermal Runaway Protection Methods
Pack designers usually call me when an edge case keeps them awake at night. The one that always comes back is thermal runaway: the moment an internal short…
Home Energy Storage Flood Recovery: A Practical Guide
When the Water Recedes, the Real Risk Begins
I am Karl Huang, a senior lithium battery engineer at Horizon Power. Over the last decade I have stood in more…
Sodium-Ion Battery Overdischarge Tolerance and 0V Storage
Ask any pack engineer which single failure mode keeps them awake at night and the answer is usually the same: one cell driven negative inside a series stri…
Semi-Solid State Battery Internal Pressure Sensing
Pressure is the one signal that tells you what is actually happening inside a sealed cell. Voltage and temperature are averages taken at the terminals and…
Semi-Solid State Battery Vent and CID Design
Most semi-solid state battery programs I review treat the vent as an afterthought, a hole the mechanical team adds after the chemistry is locked. That orde…
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…
Sodium-Ion Battery for Data Center Backup Power
Over the last decade I have designed and commissioned backup battery strings for everything from a two-rack
network closet to a 12 MW colocation hall…
Home Energy Storage in Hot Attics and Garages
Every residential installer has the same conversation weekly: “can we put the home energy storage battery in the garage, or up in the attic?” The answer is…
Home Energy Storage Testing for Apartments: Shared-Corridor
Why Apartment Energy Storage Testing Demands a Different Playbook
I spend most of my week inside Horizon Power’s test hall, but a growing share of the pr…
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…