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Ensuring quality through rigorous battery testing at Voltaplex

• Jan 14, 2025
• By Sam Abdelaal
• 1 comment

At Voltaplex, we take pride in delivering batteries that meet the highest standards of safety, performance, and reliability. Every battery produced undergoes a meticulous testing...

Understanding lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries and their applications

• Aug 19, 2024
• By Sam Abdelaal
• 1 comment

Lithium Iron Phosphate (LFP) batteries are gaining popularity in various industries due to their unique advantages over other types of lithium-ion batteries. In this article,...

The role of automated grid vehicles (AGVs) in revolutionizing the warehouse industry

• Aug 19, 2024
• By Sam Abdelaal
• 1 comment

The warehouse industry is undergoing a significant transformation, driven by the increasing demand for efficiency, accuracy, and speed. One of the key technologies at the...

Rare but ferocious

• Jul 13, 2024
• By Admin Admin
• 1 comment

As part of our LithiumSAFE Conference, we held a panel on how to speak about battery safety in the marketplace.  Panelists included Jim Greenberger, Executive...

Let's save the heros

• Jul 13, 2024
• By Admin Admin
• 1 comment

Last Sunday at an Aricell plant in South Korea, the workers heard some popping noises, and saw smoke coming from a large stack of loose...

An open letter to the House of Representatives and CPSC regarding safe e-bike battery designs

• Jul 13, 2024
• By Abby Zielsdorf
• 1 comment

For more than 18 months, the Soteria Battery Innovation Group has led a group of over 20 companies in a project to understand the dangers...

Battery safety education

• Jul 13, 2024
• By Admin Admin
• 1 comment

Back in September of 2011, in Louisville, Kentucky, I attended my first industry conference, the NAATBatt annual meeting.  I was just getting started in the...

Where there is smoke

• Jul 13, 2024
• By Admin Admin
• 1 comment

On April 10, 2023, a man rode his electric bike home from his job in Manhattan to his home in Queens, NY.  He lived in...

An open dialogue about safety

• Jul 13, 2024
• By Admin Admin
• 1 comment

Talking about battery safety is normally a very charged conversation.  So much is at stake.  Companies could have to issue huge recalls.  Or someone could...

Safety doesn't sell

• Jul 13, 2024
• By Admin Admin
• 1 comment

In 1972, Lee Iacocca, then President of Ford Motor Company, said that “Safety doesn’t sell.” But in 1988, he led Chrysler to announce that they...

A menagerie of errors

• Jul 13, 2024
• By Admin Admin
• 1 comment

Last week, there was a fire at night in an e-bike shop in New York City, and four people in the apartments above died of...

An explosive revelation

• Jul 13, 2024
• By Admin Admin
• 1 comment

Before I start this article, I want to say thank you to the brave men and women who serve as first responders and enter into...

Slaying of a beautiful theory

• Jul 13, 2024
• By Admin Admin
• 1 comment

In 1870, biologist Thomas Henry Huxley delivered a speech in which he said “The great tragedy of science—the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an...

A problem we can solve

• Jul 13, 2024
• By Admin Admin
• 1 comment

In 2016, when Samsung recalled their Galaxy Note 7 due to spontaneous battery fires, I had a conversation with Mark Lefebvre. He liked the Dreamweaver...

Wholistic approach to battery safety

• Dec 12, 2023
• By Admin Admin
• 1 comment

In 1959, Volvo invented the three-point seatbelt, and famously made it available for the rest of the automotive industry to use. They estimate it has...

Six battery safety strategies

• Dec 12, 2023
• By Admin Admin
• 1 comment

Now having talked about a wholistic approach to battery fires, and also a way to estimate the size of the risk, it’s time to discuss...

E-bike fires in NYC

• Dec 12, 2023
• By Admin Admin
• 1 comment

At this point we’ve talked about the hazard of lithium-ion batteries in addition to a few possible solutions, so let’s analyze a specific situation and...