Semi-Solid State Battery Performance for EV Packs: An
Why I Put Semi-Solid Cells Into an EV Test Pack
I have spent fourteen years designing lithium battery packs for drones, robotics, and light electric vehicl…
Battery Solution Testing for Robotics: An Engineer’s
A mobile robot that drops out of a customer demo is rarely the controller’s fault. After roughly nine years of testing custom battery solutions for industr…
Sodium-Ion Battery Performance in Microgrids
Over the last two summers I have watched microgrid operators quietly add sodium-ion battery strings to their inverters, often as a second technology alongs…
Battery Solution Design for Equipment: An Engineer’s
If a customer calls me with a stack of drawings and says “design a battery for this machine”, the first thing I do is put the drawings down and ask three q…
Lithium Battery Maintenance for Power Tools
If you have ever pulled a dead 18 V pack off the shelf and blamed the cell when the real culprit was a dry contact or a five cent BMS FET, you already know…
Battery Solution Cost Optimization for Commercial Vehicles
Most vehicle electrification programs I review lose money in the same place: the battery solution. The cell price on the quote looks competitive, but the s…
Battery Solution Reliability for Sensors: How I Specify
Seven years ago I stood on a ridge in Inner Mongolia looking at a weather station that had gone dark for the third time in eighteen months. The anemomete…
How a Battery Solution Provider Reduces Your Time-to-Market
Every product team I meet has the same lament: the battery is the last thing designed and the first thing to blow the schedule. As a senior lithium battery…