Battery Solution for Film and Television Field Kits
I have spent more than ten years specifying and qualifying lithium cell packs for broadcast, cinema and field-production customers, and the same conversati…
Semi-Solid State Battery for High Altitude Platforms
I have spent the last four years building lithium battery packs for aircraft that never land. Not passenger jets — high altitude platform stations (HAPS):…
Lithium Battery Design for Mobility Devices: Airline and
Over the past eleven years I have personally managed the design, certification, and field rollout of lithium battery packs for more than 60 mobility device…
Lithium Battery Cost Optimization for UPS Systems (2)
In eleven years of specifying backup power for data centers, hospitals, and telecom huts, I have never seen a UPS battery project fail on purchase price. I…
Lithium Battery Reliability for Solar Kits: Moisture
I have spent nine years designing and troubleshooting lithium battery packs for off-grid solar kits, and if you asked me to rank the failure modes I have s…
Battery Solution Testing for Robotics: Impedance-Drift
I have been signing off on battery solution testing robotics programs for warehouse AMRs, last-mile delivery robots, and surgical assistant platforms for e…
Semi-Solid State Battery Cost Optimization for Robotics (4)
After eleven years of designing lithium battery packs for warehouse robots, I have learned that the bill of materials is rarely where the money is lost. Th…
Lithium Battery Performance for Power Tools: Platform
Why “performance” is a system property, not a cell spec
I have spent more than a decade in our Shenzhen pack line, and the most common misconce…
Lithium Battery Testing for Power Tools: Drop and Ingress
I have run a 21700 cordless-tool pack through the same gauntlet for seven years now, and every facility I visit still finds the same surprise: the cell che…
Sodium-Ion Battery Design for Street Lights: Cold-Start
I still remember the first time I pulled a failed lead-acid brick out of a street-light pole in Tianjin, twenty-three years ago. The acid had wicked up the…