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Time can be more impactful than capacity

Communicate discharge and charge times to be more relatable to users and their applications.

Capacity is the most common way to describe a battery. However, If end users, who are often non-technical, are evaluating your battery for their application, it can be more effective to describe performance in terms of time instead of capacity. Communicating that your battery lasts 30 minutes longer than the competition's drives home the message in a way that comparing capacities doesn't.

 

Plot it yourself:

  1. Load your data into a new or existing Workspace (learn how)
  2. Select “Cycle Number” for your X-axis
  3. Select “Total Discharge Time” for your Y-axis
  4. Click Generate

Interested in the time it takes a cell to reach 3.0V each cycle? Evaluating new formation or cycling protocols? 


Contact our team of battery experts at support@voltaiq.com and we can show you how to build a custom metric with your own methodology. We can even develop it for you.