Sodium-Ion Battery Cathode Materials: Layered Oxides vs (2)
Why Cathode Choice Defines a Sodium-Ion Battery
When I spec a sodium-ion battery for a stationary storage or low-speed mobility customer, the conversation…
Battery Solution for Portable Military Communications
A manpack radio that goes silent in the third hour of a 24-hour mission is a logistics failure before it is an electronics failure. In my work at Horizon P…
Lithium Battery for Medical Carts and Hospital Equipment
When a clinical floor manager asks me to size a lithium battery for medical carts and hospital equipment, the conversation never starts with energy density…
Lithium Battery for Golf Carts and Resort Fleets
I have spent the better part of fourteen years specifying traction packs for everything from airport ground support equipment to agricultural utility vehic…
Semi-Solid State Battery Cell Formatting and Stack Pressure
I have spent most of my career on the manufacturing side of lithium cells, and if there is one lesson the last three years have hammered home, it is this:…
Lithium Battery for Marine Trolling Motors
I have spent a good part of the last twelve years on the electrical side of small craft — bass boats in the south, aluminium skiffs in the Pacific Northwes…
Battery Solution for Smart Metering and AMI Networks
When a utility wants to cut truck rolls by 80% and turn a 10-million-meter fleet into a remotely managed endpoint grid, every node becomes only as reliabl…
Semi-Solid State Battery Cold Start Performance
I have lost count of the number of cold-chamber mornings I have spent watching a battery pack that worked perfectly at 25°C collapse into a few hundred…
Lithium Battery Testing for Power Tools: Pulse-Current
In eleven years of designing and validating lithium battery packs for cordless tools, I have watched more projects fail at the validation bench than at the…
Sodium-Ion Battery Design for Street Lights: Off-Grid
Twelve years into designing lithium battery packs for outdoor deployments, I assumed the first truly large sodium-ion fleet I would touch would be a contai…