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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).
A Tale of Two Recalls: Tesla vs. Chevy Bolt
What Tesla got right: A case for software-defined anything.
The Hidden, Wasteful Side of Electrification, and How We’re Fixing It (aka, Meet Little Timmy Who’s No Longer Sad)
Batteries aren’t used as efficiently as they should, like other expensive assets. The simplest way to reduce the cost of electrification is to increase the utilization rate for every pound of lithium. Here’s how we do it.
Will AI batteries Take Over the World?
How our battery technology uses telemetry to predict and pinpoint battery behaviors to maximize resource usage and reduce costs.
Post-Quantum Cryptography For Battery Security (BatSec 7/6)
Can quantum computers crack our security architecture? TL; DR: Yes, quantum computers can crack our current algorithms. No, we aren’t panicking — not even the slightest. Find out why.
TBOS Software Architecture: How the Magic Happens (Part 1 of 2)
Our secret sauce: Learn the four key components in the Tanktwo Battery Operating System that allow us to deliver an innovative battery architecture that can overcome the limits of today’s battery solutions.