Reduce Workplace Injuries with Li-ion Batteries for Material Handling
27 Feb, 2023
Overview Workplace injuries are all-too common in the warehouses and battery maintenance for material handling equipment is a typical culprit. The ongoing maintenance required to keep flooded lead acid batteries...
Future-Proofing Your Fleet: Long term Viability of Li-ion Technology in the Material Handling Industry and Ground Support Equipment Industries
7 Nov, 2022
For nearly two decades, I have focused on battery technology and the battery industry. I have a PhD from The University of Texas at Austin, where I studied with John...
In Case of Emergency, Go Swimming?
24 Oct, 2022
In a recent Green Cubes webinar, we were asked, “What is the best fire suppression system for lithium-ion batteries?” We are asked this question often by all sorts of customers,...
Recap of The Battery Show in Novi, Michigan 2022
30 Sep, 2022
Overview Listed below are interesting announcements and observations from our team that was deployed to The Battery Show last week in Novi, Michigan. We want to provide the entire battery...
Opportunity Charging Enabled by Fast Charging MultiVoltage Batteries
27 Sep, 2022
Overview Opportunity charging is a practice applicable to both Lead Acid and Lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries for motive power systems and especially useful for Material Handling (MH) equipment. These practices can...
GSE Expo: Recap and Summary from the Paris Show September 12-15
26 Sep, 2022
Despite the hot weather, all 4000 attendees who registered for the show seemed to have made it! The show was very enthusiastically attended. Green Cubes was there in force with...
Li-ion Cells are Growing – When Does it Stop?
28 Jun, 2022
There has been a lot of talk lately about new lithium-ion factories coming online and even more planned. What are they building though? Manufacturers are looking at how the size...
What Does the Future Hold for Your Rube Goldberg Battery Power System?
14 Dec, 2021
Rube Goldberg adjective : accomplishing by complex means what seemingly could be done simplya kind of Rube Goldberg contraption … with five hundred moving parts— L. T. GrantSource: Miriam Webster Dictionary Did you...
Blog Post: Exide Lead Acid Batteries – Making Rube Goldberg Proud
30 Nov, 2021
On December 16, 1894, W.W. Gibbs, President of the Electric Storage Battery Company (ESBC) made a stunning announcement. Gibbs, who founded ESBC in 1888, asserted that he had just purchased all...
Battcon ’21 Attendees Impressed with Green Cube’s (formerly branded as UNIPOWER) Guardian and Aspiro DC Power Systems
22 Nov, 2021
At this year’s Battcon conference, we were pleased to present our highly trusted and reliable Guardian and Aspiro DC power families. Conversations were a plenty about the reliability and technology...
Lead Acid – The Neurotoxic Rube Goldberg Machine of Energy Storage
30 Oct, 2021
For both our employees and community, I want to address the health, safety, and environmental problems with Lead Acid. The single-biggest environmental issue with Lead-acid batteries involves the Lead component...
No Compromises – When It Absolutely Must Work
8 Jul, 2021
At Green Cubes (formerly branded as UNIPOWER), we hang our hats on our reliability and robust designs. The following article comes directly from the field where we support the U.S....