Semi-Solid State Battery Fast Charge Capability and Limits
Pulling 4C out of a semi-solid state pack sounds like a spec sheet triumph until you watch a thin slice of anode under a reference electrode and see lithiu…
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…
Lithium Battery Performance for Power Tools (2)
After fourteen years of building high-drain packs for cordless tool platforms, I have learned that “performance” is the most abused word in this industry….
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 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 Performance for EV Packs (Guide)
As a senior lithium battery engineer, I have spent the last decade qualifying traction packs for passenger EVs, and the single question OEMs ask most often…