Sodium-Ion Battery Transport and UN38.3 Compliance
When the first batch of our 15S sodium-ion packs left the plant, the freight forwarder returned a checklist with one line highlighted: “UN 38.3 test summar…
Sodium-Ion Battery for Utility Peak Shaving
Peak shaving looks like the easiest assignment you can give a battery. Charge while the grid is quiet, discharge while the feeder is loaded, and let the me…
Sodium-Ion Battery for Two-Wheeler Fleets
In the last eighteen months, fleet operators from Jakarta to Nairobi have asked me the same question in almost the same words: can a sodium-ion battery sur…
Sodium-Ion Battery Safety Profile and Abuse Testing
Over the last three years I have run abuse campaigns on more than forty sodium-ion cell builds in our own test house — 18650 and 26700 cylindricals, 20 Ah…
Sodium-Ion Battery for Data Center Backup Power
Over the last decade I have designed and commissioned backup battery strings for everything from a two-rack
network closet to a 12 MW colocation hall…
Sodium-Ion vs LFP for Grid Storage: Duration and Cost
I have spent the last decade specifying battery energy storage systems for utility and commercial projects, and almost every procurement conversation now s…
Home Energy Storage Lithium vs Sodium Chemistry
I have spent the last decade sizing residential storage systems for homes in climates that range from the humid subtropics of Shenzhen to unheated garages…
Sodium-Ion Battery Hard Carbon Anode Explained
If you have been evaluating a sodium-ion battery for stationary storage, low-temperature equipment, or a cost-sensitive fleet application, you have probabl…
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…
Sodium-Ion Battery Low Temperature Discharge Behavior
Every winter I get the same call from integrators in Harbin, Kazakhstan, and the Canadian prairies: their lithium iron phosphate packs lose so much usable…