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Advancing Resiliency in Electrification
Resiliency in the context of electrification, the challenges of building resiliency into electrification initiatives, and how to design resiliency into your strategy.
What Drives the Future of Battery Technologies? (Part 2)
Focusing on the battery value chain in your electrification strategy is key to long-term success. See how to build a resilient, sustainable, and circular battery value chain.
What Drives the Future of Battery Technologies? (Part 1)
Battery chemistries aren’t the bottleneck in the future of battery technologies. We explore what business leaders should focus on in their electrification strategies by understanding the challenge of the battery value chain.
The Fallacy of "Better Battery Chemistries”
Traditional battery technology doesn’t allow you to drop some newfangled-chemistry cells into an existing pack. Introducing new chemistries means redesigning the equipment, maintenance routine, supply chain, and more — creating immense barriers to bringing better battery chemistries from the lab into the commercial world.
Top Electrification Trends and What To Do About Them
Top 8 electrification trends business leaders must know. Plus, how to turn these insights into action to inform your decision-making.
Voyager 1 Lives Another Day… So Should Your Battery Pack
The Voyager 1’s remote repair shows the power of a software-defined application and illustrates how software-defined batteries can help equipment operators streamline hardware management and maintenance.
What Exactly Does Battery Analytics Do?
What battery analytics entail and why it’s critical for improving the cost-efficiency and profitability of electrified equipment.
Don’t Make This Mistake in Your Product Roadmap For Battery-Powered Equipment (and what to do instead)
Learn about the most common battery roadmap mistakes, why you shouldn’t focus on battery chemistries, and how to structure your battery roadmap for electrification success.
How To Navigate the Battery Supply Chain
While the supply chain for electrified equipment is shorter, it heads in a different direction. You can’t make a 1-to-1 analogy to translate inventory control strategy from ICE to battery. The key to survive and thrive in this transition starts with a mindset change.
Should Retrofitting Be Part of Your Electrification Strategy?
How should you decide if your product is a good candidate for retrofitting? What’s the biggest pitfall you must avoid to ensure a successful effort? Here’s what you need to know.
How To Evaluate Battery Safety Features
Battery safety is as elusive as it’s critical. Determining if a solution is “safe enough” for an application isn’t always a black-and-white decision. Here’s what you need to know.
Choosing the Right Battery Chemistry Isn’t Just About the Chemistry
Choosing the right battery chemistry isn’t always as cut-and-dry as a purely engineering exercise. It may look more like the Buddhist’s teaching of the Middle Way than a hardcore scientific evaluation.
How to Test and Validate Battery Specs
Can you trust battery manufacturers’ specs when integrating a lithium battery solution into your product? Here’s how to test and validate battery safety, performance, lifespan, and more based on your requirements.
How to Set the Foundation For Successful Lithium Battery Integration
Before digging into the highly technical stuff like battery chemistry, you must set the foundation by understanding requirements and aligning technical and business decisions. Here’s how.
How To Make Your Battery Pack Do _____
How to change battery characteristics and behaviors to meet business and product requirements and make electrification solutions more accessible to small and medium enterprises.
A Product Manager’s Guide to Lithium Battery Integration
Integrating a battery pack into a product isn’t just about engineering. Let’s explore the challenges manufacturers and designers must address when incorporating a lithium battery pack into a product and what you should consider to get on the right track.
A Lesson From Dishy McFlatface: AI and the Benefits of Proactive Customer Support
How SpaceX uses software to solve a simple but potentially costly hardware issue and how we can apply the lesson to battery technology to lower cost, reduce support tickets, and improve customer satisfaction.
Software-Defined: Buzzword Bingo or Real Deal?
What exactly does software-defined mean, and why is it important? Find out the benefits and potential challenges as we adopt this inevitable trend.
The Actual Big Deal About the Tesla Cybertruck
What’s the big deal of having an 800V architecture charging from 400V sources? We uncover its vast implication for the electrification of anything.
Power Supply, You’re Fired!
Power conversion steps are cumbersome, expensive, and complex. See how our technology can help bypass this necessary evil with software-defined batteries (SDBs).