Lithium Battery for Utility Task Vehicles and UTVs
My name is Karl Huang, senior lithium battery engineer, and a large part of my work is spent in the field with fleet owners rather than at a drawing board….
Semi-Solid State Battery Preheating Before Charging
Winter fleet callbacks are the ugliest kind of design review. The vehicle has sat outside all night and the driver wants to leave on time, but the charger…
Battery Solution for Concrete Batch Plants
Ten years on battery packs for mobile machines, I still get called to concrete plants for the same reason: the site owner looks at a nameplate rating of 20…
Lithium Battery for Cordless Vacuum Cleaners
Inside almost every stick vacuum on the market the cordless vacuum battery is a small lithium-ion pack doing something that looks simple and is not: puttin…
Cordless Angle Grinder Battery: Surge, Runtime and Motor Load
As a senior lithium battery engineer at Horizon Power, I have torn down and rebuilt more cordless angle grinders than I can count on our test bench. The an…
N/P Ratio Design in Semi-Solid State Battery Cells
As a battery engineer at Horizon Power, I get asked why two cells with the same chemistry and the same rated capacity can show very different cycle life in…
Home Energy Storage for Electric Sauna Heating
Why Electric Sauna Heating Is a Demanding Load
Over the last decade I have specified lithium battery packs for everything from drone propulsion to grid bac…
Lithium Battery for Cordless Leaf Blowers
As a senior lithium battery engineer at Horizon Power, I have spent the last twelve years tuning packs for handheld outdoor power equipment. The cordless l…
Semi-Solid State Battery Cell-to-Pack Integration
Pack architecture decides how much of a cell’s promised performance survives in the real product. As a senior lithium battery engineer who has spent the la…
Lithium Battery for Electric Gate Openers and Barrier Arms
At Horizon Power we have shipped lithium packs for access-control gear for more than a decade, and I still get the same call from installers in January: th…