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…
Semi-Solid State Battery Commercial Availability Today
I get this question from procurement teams more than any other right now: when can I actually buy a semi-solid state battery and put it into a shipped prod…
Semi-Solid State Battery for 12V Start-Stop and Mild Hybrid
In fifteen years building lithium battery packs for automotive and industrial customers, the hardest request has never been the biggest one. It is the smal…
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…
Solid Electrolyte Membrane Casting for Semi-Solid Batteries
Most buyers judge a semi-solid state battery by its chemistry sheet, but after fifteen years on the coating line I can tell you the cell usually lives or d…
Dendrite Suppression in Semi-Solid State Batteries
During a 2023 qualification run for a 24 Ah semi-solid state pouch cell, my team at Horizon Power watched capacity collapse from 98.5 percent to 71 percent…
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…
Semi-Solid State Battery Cell Stacking and Lamination
As a senior lithium battery engineer at Horizon Power, I have spent the last decade moving pouch and prismatic cells from the lab bench to fully automated…
Semi-Solid State Battery Calendering and Porosity Control
At Horizon Power, I spend a lot of time on the electrode production floor. Calendering is one of the steps that separates a good semi-solid state battery f…
Semi-Solid State Battery Pouch Heat Sealing and Degassing
At Horizon Power we build semi-solid state cells in both prismatic and pouch formats, and after years on the pilot line I can say the pouch route lives or…