Battery Solutions for Quarry and Aggregate Processing
Why Quarry Sites Are a Harsh Environment for Batteries
Quarries and aggregate processing sites run some of the toughest duty cycles in heavy industry. For…
Sodium-Ion Battery for Food Trucks and Mobile Kitchens
In most of my years designing battery packs for vehicles, the hardest brief has never been the biggest one. It is the awkward one: a pack that has to run a…
Battery Solution for Port Ground Support Equipment
Container terminals are diesel’s last stronghold, and that is exactly why they are now the fastest-electrifying segment in material handling. A port ground…
Battery Solution for Rail Yard Shunting Equipment
Rail yards are the least glamorous and most abusive environment in the rail industry. Shunting engines start, accelerate, brake, and idle hundreds of times…
Battery Solution for Water and Wastewater Monitoring
I have spent more than a decade specifying industrial battery packs for remote and unmanned sites, and water infrastructure keeps teaching me the same less…
Battery Solution Design for Equipment: Load-Spectrum
Most failed custom battery solution programs I have audited in the last decade lost their way at the same two pinch points: the translation step between a…
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…
Sodium-Ion Battery Cost Optimization for Forklifts (2)
In eleven years of specifying motive power for warehouse fleets, I have watched purchasing departments obsess over one number: the sticker price of the ba…
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…
Sodium-Ion Battery Cost Optimization for Forklifts: An
I manage battery programs for a living, and no application teaches you about cost faster than a material handling fleet. A forklift battery is not a purcha…