Semi-Solid State Battery Performance for EV Packs: Swelling
In eight years of designing and validating traction batteries, I have watched the industry chase energy density with an almost religious intensity. But wh…
Semi-Solid State Battery Testing for EV Packs: Abuse and
Over the past eleven years I have signed off on battery validation programs for everything from racing drones to forklift packs, and the questions I get mo…
Semi-Solid State Battery Design for Storage: Rack-Scale
Six months ago I stood in front of a 20-foot container that was supposed to be our flagship semi-solid state storage product, and the thermal imagery told…
Semi-Solid State Battery Cost Optimization for Robotics (2)
Three years ago, a warehouse automation client asked me a question that has shaped how I quote every robotics project since: “We believe semi-solid is safe…
Semi-Solid State Battery Reliability for Aerospace (2)
By Karl Huang, Senior Lithium Battery Engineer at Horizon Power — nine years of field returns data from HAPS, large fixed-wing UAVs, and eVTOL prototypes….
Semi-Solid State Battery Performance for EV Packs: Winter
Every winter I get the same message from a fleet manager: “Karl, our vans lose 60 km of range when the temperature drops to -8 °C, and the fast-charge win…
Semi-Solid State Battery Testing for EV Packs: An
Why Traction Testing for a Semi-Solid State Battery Is Its Own Discipline
I have spent the last decade running validation campaigns for high-energy tractio…
Semi-Solid State Battery Design for Energy Storage
Why a Stationary Energy Storage Battery Is a Different Animal from an EV Pack
I still remember the first time a grid-scale integrator asked me to re-spec a…
Semi-Solid State Battery Cost Optimization for Robotics: An
I have spent eleven years specifying lithium battery packs for warehouse robots, and the most expensive mistake I see repeat across AMR and AGV fleets is j…
Semi-Solid State Battery Reliability for Aerospace: An
Most of my career has been spent proving that lithium batteries will not do something spectacular on an aircraft. I have watched more thermal-runaway test…