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March 3, 2026

Software is the “Seoul” of the Battery Asset

Qnovo announces a strategic investment from Hyundai Motor Company and Kia Corporation to advance the deployment of battery software across electric mobility and future platforms.

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MAKING SENSE OF 100 KWH

Tesla Motors announced today upgraded versions of the Model S and X boasting 100 kWh battery packs, up from 90 kWh used in their earlier top-of-the-line electric vehicles. One hundred kilowatt-hours sounds like a lot, and it is, but I bet that many readers...

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THE STATE OF THE LITHIUM ION BATTERY

As I pondered over the past couple of weeks what might be a befitting topic for this 100th post, a group at MIT announced that they discovered how to make batteries with double the energy. Of course, the operative word in the press release was...

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CONFUSING POWER

This post includes contributions from Robert Nalesnik. I discussed in the past how fast charging requires two components: i) power delivery – that means getting extra electrical power from the wall socket to the battery and ii) battery management...

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WHAT POKEMON & TWITTER HAVE IN COMMON

Pokemon Go, the app that catapulted over this past weekend to the #1 download spot for both iOS and Android apps simultaneously runs the cellular radio (3G, 4G, LTE) along with the GPS locator and the screen. No wonder users are reporting dead...

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YOUR MOBILE DEVICE NEEDS TO SLEEP TOO

Sleep is an essential function of life. Tissue in living creatures regenerate during deep sleep. We, humans, get very cranky with sleep deprivation. And cranky we do get when our battery gets depleted because we did not give our mobile device sufficient...

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BATTERY AGNOSTIC = BATTERY ILLITERATE

I will jump ahead in this post to discuss the merits of different lithium-ion chemistries and their suitability to energy storage systems (ESS) applications. Naturally, this assumes that lithium-ion batteries in general are among the best suited technologies...

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THE CHANGING NATURE OF THE FUTURE ELECTRIC GRID

I explained in this previous post how energy storage can be beneficial in the configuration of a modern electrical grid that encourages multiple forms of clean energy. Today’s post takes this explanation one step further and covers a few of the fundamental...

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WHAT IS THE INTEREST IN ENERGY STORAGE?

Since the installation of the first electrical power plant late in the 19th century, the business of supplying electricity to industry and residences has been “on demand.” When you flip a light switch in your home, you expect the light to go on. For this to happen...

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WHERE CAN I BUY SOME LITHIUM ?

Every so often, I hear at a dinner gathering the question: “Is there enough lithium?” I have already covered this question in a previous post. The answer is YES. However, an abundance of a resource in the earth’s crust does not mean that its economics will always...

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IT’s ABOUT TIME WE DISCUSS SAFETY

A young woman, Anna Crail, was flying on 19 March of this year on an Alaska Airlines flight from Seattle to Honolulu. About 90 minutes prior to landing, her iPhone 6 suddenly broke out in flames causing panic in mid flight. The fire was rapidly extinguished by the...

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CARMAKERS WILL NOT FEAR EVs FOR SEVERAL MORE YEARS

Tesla Motors presold over 400,000 Model 3 electric vehicles (EVs) in the course of a couple of weeks. Should the traditional carmakers with conventional internal combustion engines (ICE) be concerned? …the answer is probably not before 2025 or beyond...

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CHARGING THE GALAXY S7

I discussed in a prior post the charging of the 5.5-in Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge. In this post, we will look at its sister device, the 5.1-in Samsung Galaxy S7, specifically the US version (model G930) using the Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 chipset, also known...

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FIVE COMMON MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT Li+ BATTERIES

For a seemingly simple device with only two electrical connections to it, a battery is deceivingly misunderstood by the broad population, especially as batteries are now a common fixture in our technology-laden daily lives. I will highlight in this post five...

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CHARGING THE SAMSUNG GALAXY S7 EDGE

The new Galaxy S7 and its sister smartphone the S7 Edge are receiving rave reviews. So let’s take a look at their batteries. A brief comparison table shows the new S7 and S7 Edge side-by-side with the older S6 and the Note 4. Let’s make a few key...

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ELECTRIC VEHICLES STILL NEED EXPENSIVE GAS TO THRIVE

General Motors announced in January the all new Chevy Bolt, and Tesla Motors followed recently in pre-announcing the long anticipated Model 3. Both cars are new and novel, the first electric vehicles ever to boast of a driving range of 200 miles at a price before...

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SONY XPERIA INCORPORATES QNOVO TECHNOLOGY

We are very proud to announce today at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona that the new Sony Xperia devices will incorporate Qnovo’s adaptive charging solutions. Sony Mobile announced today new smartphones offering twice the battery cycle life in addition...

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WHY CONSUMERS BITCH ABOUT BATTERIES

Ask smartphone users about their battery experience and you often get the typical answer: “it sucks!” But why? and what is the problem? iPhones suffer from a small battery capacity, so it is understandable that Apple users get upset with their short battery life...

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ADAPTIVITY APPLIED TO LITHIUM ION BATTERIES

I described in the earlier post how adaptive systems turned smartphones into great cameras. Let’s now talk about how adaptivity and adaptive charging can make a battery perform far better. Let’s start briefly with the basic operation of a lithium ion battery...

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THE MEANING OF ADAPTIVE

Our new website presents our suite of products called Adaptive Charging Software. It is fair to say that everyone understands and recognizes the meaning of “Charging” and “Software”…but “Adaptive”? What does it really mean? The purpose of this...

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THE COST COMPONENTS OF A LITHIUM ION BATTERY

A lithium-ion battery cell for a smartphone costs the device OEM somewhere between $2 to $4 depending on its capacity and other design attributes. It constitutes about 1 to 2% of the entire cost of the mobile device. In contrast, a lithium-ion battery for...

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THE RACE FOR AUTONOMOUS ELECTRIC VEHICLES

The California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) proposed today a new set of rules that will govern the operation of autonomous vehicles on the state’s roads. Simultaneously, Google announced...

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HOVERBOARDS ARE CHALLENGING BATTERY SAFETY

What do Chappaqua, NY and Brentwood, CA have in common? Burning hoverboards….this is a new category of battery-powered levitating boards, sort of electrically-powered, self-balanced skateboards.

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CAN I FAST-CHARGE MY TESLA OR EV?

Before I start this post, I encourage all new readers to go back to the early posts if they desire to learn more about the basics of lithium-ion batteries and their operation. This post is dedicated to deciphering...

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THREE DISCOVERIES THAT REVOLUTIONIZED Li+ BATTERIES

For those of you old enough to remember the Sony Walkman portable radios in 1970s, they ushered a new era of consumer electronics, and one could argue, the first mobile battery-powered “devices,” the ancestral precursor to the Apple iPod three decades...

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THE FINANCIAL DILEMMA OF BATTERY MANUFACTURERS

The lithium-ion battery market is large. For consumer devices, it will exceed $10B in 2015 corresponding to a total output capacity of 40 GWh. The promise of even greater markets in stationary energy storage and electric vehicles is attracting interest and...