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Battery Guides & Notes

Practical notes from the catalogue: chemistry comparisons, sizing worksheets and replacement guides, written for buyers rather than engineers.

Portable power station powering devices outdoors
Battery fitted in a frosty engine bay, illustration

Sodium-Ion vs LiFePO4

A cold-climate comparison of sodium-ion and LiFePO4 for engine starting: discharge at −40°C, cranking bursts, voltage windows and cycle life, from cell data.

What these guides cover

Three long-form guides, each built around a decision buyers actually face. The first compares sodium-ion and LiFePO4 for cold-climate starting, cell data included. The second is a sizing method for portable power stations — output versus capacity, worked through with real load lists. The third walks a forklift fleet through replacing lead-acid traction batteries with sodium-ion packs, class by class, chargers included.

How to read the numbers in these guides

Each guide works through the sizing arithmetic step by step, so you can rerun it with your own loads, hours and temperatures. Where a decision turns on something no catalogue can know, like your fleet's shift pattern or your market's coldest night, the guide says what to measure instead of guessing at it.

From a guide to a shortlist

If a guide narrows the choice, the product pages carry the specifications, and the inquiry form is where a shortlist becomes a quotation. Tell us which guide you came from and what your own numbers look like — the reply will meet you at that level, not start again from the beginning.