Sodium-Ion Battery for Robotic Lawn Mowers
As a senior lithium battery engineer at Horizon Power, I have spent the last few years helping original equipment manufacturers choose cells for autonomous…
Sodium-Ion Battery for Mobile Light Towers
Over the past three years at Horizon Power, I have watched mobile light towers shift from diesel toward battery power in nearly every RFP our applications…
Sodium-Ion Battery for Railway Crossing Signals
I am Karl Huang, Senior Lithium Battery Engineer at Horizon Power. For the past decade I have specified stationary batteries for safety-critical infrastruc…
Sodium-Ion Battery for Desalination and Off-Grid Water
Why Desalination Is Moving Off the Grid
Over the last three years I have watched a clear shift in how small and mid-sized water plants are being built. Com…
Sodium-Ion Battery for Pipeline Cathodic Protection
As a senior lithium battery engineer at Horizon Power, I have spent the last decade shipping cells into fleets that cannot afford a quiet failure. When pip…
Sodium-Ion Battery Overdischarge Tolerance and 0V Storage
Ask any pack engineer which single failure mode keeps them awake at night and the answer is usually the same: one cell driven negative inside a series stri…
Sodium-Ion Battery for Snow Groomers and Winter Maintenance
Most fleet managers assume that any lithium battery rated for industrial use will work in a snow groomer or winter road-maintenance truck. In my experience…
Sodium-Ion Battery Second Life and Repurposing
I have spent fifteen years testing lithium packs, and most of what I believed about retired batteries had to be rewritten the first time I graded a batch o…
Sodium-Ion Battery Calendering and Porosity Control
Sodium-ion cells ask the calender to do something lithium-ion never asked of it. The hard carbon anode stores most of its sodium in pores rather than betwe…
Sodium-Ion Battery Fire Suppression and Detection Design
Fire protection for a battery room is usually specified by someone who has never watched a cell vent. I have, twice, in abuse testing, and both times the s…