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…
Lithium Battery for Film Lighting: Flicker-Free Power Budget
On a documentary shoot in Oman we lost forty minutes to a fault that was neither the fixture nor the camera. Six 300 W LED panels were pulling from a 26 V…
Lithium Battery Container Fire Suppression Retest
I have walked through more than sixty containerized lithium battery installations in the last eight years, and the same conversation repeats itself almost…
Sodium-Ion Battery for Rural Water Pumping
I have spent more than a decade specifying battery systems for sites where the grid is weak or absent, and few loads punish a battery bank the way rural wa…
Sodium-Ion Battery for Cold Chain Pharmaceutical Backup
The first cold chain backup project I was pulled into did not fail because the battery was too small. It failed because nobody had written down what the ba…
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…
Lithium Battery Testing for Power Tools: Pulse-Current
In eleven years of designing and validating lithium battery packs for cordless tools, I have watched more projects fail at the validation bench than at the…
Battery Solution for Refrigerated Transport Units
Refrigerated transport has quietly become one of the most demanding environments a lithium battery can be asked to survive in. Over the past eleven years I…
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…