Semi-Solid State Battery Peak Power for Performance EVs
In eleven years of specifying lithium battery packs for vehicle programmes, the performance-car brief is still the one that surprises people. Nobody asks m…
Semi-Solid State Battery Testing for EV Packs: High-Voltage
I have spent the last four years running validation campaigns on semi-solid state cells that were destined for electric vehicle traction packs, and the sin…
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 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 Performance for EV Packs: Winter
Every winter I get the same message from a fleet manager: “Karl, our vans lose 60 km of range when the temperature drops to -8 °C, and the fast-charge win…
Semi-Solid State Battery Testing for EV Packs: An
Why Traction Testing for a Semi-Solid State Battery Is Its Own Discipline
I have spent the last decade running validation campaigns for high-energy tractio…
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…
Semi-Solid State Battery Design for EV Packs
Why Semi-Solid Changes the EV Pack Design Envelope
When I first started specifying lithium-ion packs for electric vehicles a decade ago, the pack was treat…