Lithium Battery Degradation Modeling and Warranty
After enough years on pack benches and warranty review calls, I have learned one uncomfortable truth: most lithium battery warranties are written from opti…
Lithium Battery for Airport Baggage and Cargo Handling
When an airline asks me to quote a lithium battery for airport baggage and cargo handling equipment, the conversation almost never starts with amp-hours….
Lithium Battery for Electric Outboard and Small Craft
Most electric outboard conversations start with a fuel bill. A centre console burning 60 litres of petrol on a day’s running is a boat that gets used less…
Battery Solution for Satellite Ground Station Backup
I have spent enough nights in equipment shelters to know that a satellite ground station is one of the least forgiving places to lose power. A low Earth o…
Lithium Battery for Vending and Unattended Retail
After twelve years designing lithium battery packs for commercial equipment, I can tell you that most vending machines never need one — the machine is plug…
Battery Solution for Mobile Banking and Pop-Up Retail
I have spent much of the last six years specifying packs for two customers who look nothing alike on paper but need exactly the same thing: a mobile bankin…
Lithium Battery for Aviation Ground Power Units
The first battery ground power unit I commissioned sat on a Gulf stand where the tarmac measured 68°C at
two in the afternoon, replacing a diesel unit…
Lithium Battery for Street Sweeper and Municipal Fleets
By Karl Huang, Senior Lithium Battery Engineer, Horizon Power
I have spent fifteen years specifying lithium battery packs for vehicles nobody writes poetr…
Lithium Battery Thermal Runaway Prevention in Storage Rooms
I am Karl Huang, Senior Lithium Battery Engineer at Horizon Power. Over the last decade I have walked through more than a hundred battery storage rooms, fr…
Home Energy Storage Lithium vs Sodium Chemistry
I have spent the last decade sizing residential storage systems for homes in climates that range from the humid subtropics of Shenzhen to unheated garages…