Battery Solution Design for Equipment: Thermal Path
I have walked into three equipment OEMs this quarter asking the same question: “what is the easiest battery pack to live with for ten years?” Every time th…
Battery Solution Cost Optimization for Vehicles: Depot
When a fleet manager asks me to optimize the battery solution cost for a vehicle program, the first thing I write down is not a unit price per kilowatt-hou…
Battery Solution Reliability for Sensors: Remote Node
I have spent more than a decade specifying and validating rechargeable power systems for remote monitoring hardware, and if there is one lesson the field…
Battery Solution Performance for Robotics: Peak-Power
When procurement teams ask me how to evaluate a battery solution performance robotics spec sheet, I always tell them the headline capacity number is the le…
Battery Solution Testing for Robotics: HIL Duty-Cycle
What a “Robotics-Grade” Battery Solution Actually Has to Survive
Most cell datasheets are written for either handheld electronics or electric vehicles, so…
Battery Solution Design for Equipment: Enclosure IP
Equipment battery packs fail in the field for reasons that almost never show up on a single-cell datasheet. Over the last eight years of designing batter…
Battery Solution Cost Optimization for Vehicles: Fleet TCO
# Battery Solution Cost Optimization for Vehicles: Fleet TCO Modeling, Pack Right-Sizing, and Second-Life Residual Value
If you are a fleet manager, an en…
Battery Solution Performance for Robotics: Duty-Cycle,
When an autonomous mobile robot, an AGV, or a collaborative arm loses its shift to a low state-of-charge cutoff in the middle of a tote transfer, the root…
Battery Solution Deployment for Robotics: An Engineer’s
Why a “battery solution deployment robotics” rollout is its own engineering discipline
I have spent the last nine years watching robotics fleets go from a…
Battery Solution Integration for Equipment: An Engineer’ (2)
When a finished battery solution leaves the bench and lands inside a host machine, the work is not over. Integration is where a pack that survived 200 cycl…