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Qnovo Secures Strategic Investment from Hyundai Motor and Kia
MILPITAS, CA, March 3, 2026 - Qnovo, a leader in battery software, today announced a strategic investment from Hyundai Motor Company and Kia Corporation.
Qnovo Achieves Automotive SPICE: A Milestone in Automotive Software Excellence
We're proud to announce a significant milestone in our journey to deliver world-class battery intelligence solutions - we have successfully achieved Automotive SPICE (ASpice or Auto SPICE).
Qnovo and NXP Collaborate to Accelerate Electric Vehicle Battery Performance, Range, and Safety
Qnovo, the market leader e-mobility battery management software, today announced a collaboration with NXP® Semiconductors, a world leader in secure connectivity solutions for embedded applications...
Qnovo Introduces Smartphone Fast Charging with Innovative Battery Analytics
Mobile World Congress 2015 - Qnovo, a supplier of innovative mobile fast charging solutions, today announced a new approach to reducing mobile device battery...
Qnovo Secures Strategic Investment from Hyundai Motor and Kia
MILPITAS, CA, March 3, 2026 - Qnovo, a leader in battery software, today announced a strategic investment from Hyundai Motor Company and Kia Corporation.
Qnovo Achieves Automotive SPICE: A Milestone in Automotive Software Excellence
We're proud to announce a significant milestone in our journey to deliver world-class battery intelligence solutions - we have successfully achieved Automotive SPICE (ASpice or Auto SPICE).
Let’s say you love to ride your bicycle and that you want to measure speed without using fancy computers and GPS. What would you do? High-school physics to the rescue! All we need is the circumference of the wheel then count the number of rotations the wheel...
DON’T GAMBLE AWAY THE SAFETY OF YOUR SMARTPHONE AND YOUR BRAND
The concept of risk and risk management is not new. In 1688, Edward Lloyd set up what would become today Lloyd’s of London to contain the emerging risks of the new and growing maritime trans-Atlantic trade. Since then, the business world has worked...
Everyone’s excited about 5G. And with good reason. All the great things we have been able to do on our smart phones with 4G LTE will multiply into bigger and better things in the 5G Era. We’ll be able to send and receive huge text and image files in the blink of...
Ted Miller, senior manager of energy storage at Ford Motor Co., recently stated: “We don’t see another way to get there without solid-state technology.” The statement is in regard to more powerful batteries for electric vehicles. Mr. Miller goes on...
Geoffrey Fowler at the Washington Post recently published an article observing that phone battery life is getting worse. I enjoyed my conversations with Geoffrey as he researched the topic. But why is the phone battery life getting worse? Why are batteries not...
The break I took from writing is over. I hope many of the readers took the time to read, re-read and digest the insight I shared in my earlier blogs. My return theme is around battery safety. Since 2016, when the Samsung Note 7 became headline news, there have been...
I googled the question “ should I charge my phone to 100”. Google returned 467 million results. From folks offering opinions on “how to properly charge” to others calling on “science”, there seems no obvious consensus in the media. Yet, unlike views on more...
5G is the evolution of the present LTE wireless network that carriers are beginning to deploy later this year. Yes, it will be a Global network, with every geography around the globe utilizing it at some point in the future. Yes, it will have Great capabilities, from streaming...
EXPLAINING WHY APPLE MUST SHAMEFULLY THROTTLE OLD iPHONEs
If Tesla Motors reduced the power of their flagship Tesla electric vehicles after, say, 50,000 miles of driving, the world would be up in arms. If General Motors throttled the Corvette engine to 4 cylinders after some number of miles, the government...
THERE WILL BE NO TRUE ELECTRIC VEHICLE MARKET WITHOUT FAST CHARGING
Congratulations, you just purchased a new Tesla model S electric vehicle (EV). You also committed an extra $2,000 to install a level-2 charger on a wall in your spacious garage. A level-2 charger will deliver 6 kW of power at 240 V to charge your big...
Late summer is the season of new smartphones. Apple, Google, Samsung, LG are only a few names that announce their best ever devices in September. By now, you have all heard of or seen the new iPhones including the iPhone X, the beautiful Galaxy...
We proudly announced today that the new LG flagship smartphone, the LG V30, includes Qnovo’s adaptive charging technology. The V30 uses Qnovo’s QNI solution, our most sophisticated algorithms to manage its lithium-ion battery. In this post, we open...
School started this week for most of us so it is time to resume the posts. Today’s post continues with insight into the subtleties of the lithium-ion battery. It is surprising how a simple device, with only two contacts, can be so intriguing and complex...
Fast charging is a common feature of most modern smartphones. In a few more years, it may become a standard feature for electric vehicles too. Yet, asking a consumer how long it would take to charge their device will most likely result in a confused answer...
Whether you browse the web searching for a teardown of your favorite smartphone, or are sufficiently skilled to take a smartphone apart, you will always find a battery, a lithium-ion battery, with a whole bunch of markings on it. Some of them are obvious to...
T’is the season of new smartphone releases. The Samsung S8 is here and the drums are beating loud ahead of the much anticipated Apple iPhone 8 (or Edition, or whatever they will call it). These devices and their makers clearly tout their performance features: faster...
THE YEAR THAT ELECTRIC CARS WILL ECLIPSE SMARTPHONES
We, that’s all of us on this planet, buy every year 1.6 billion smartphones. It works out to one new smartphone every year for every four living human beings on this planet. Cumulatively, we own and use 4 billion smartphones around the world. Every region...
MWC 2017 is over. The crowds came and saw ideas and innovations. The media covered and reviewed. Awards were made. Yet a sense of public amnesia seemed to hover over the battery safety problems that the Samsung Note 7 brought to surface in 2016...
Samsung announced this week the results of their investigations regarding the Galaxy Note 7 fires. Samsung hired three independent test laboratories, Exponent, TUV Rheinland and UL to perform the analyses. The result was three full reports and...
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. It was the age of innovation, it was the age of imitation. It was the epoch of the battery, it was the epoch of lithium. It was the season of Japan, it became the season of China. It was the spring of hope for batteries...
This year has been one of heightened awareness regarding battery safety. Smartphone manufacturers now realize that battery fires are real and recalls from the field are enormously expensive. Along with this education comes a deeper realization that battery...
Qualcomm announced this week their 4th generation Quick Charge™ technology to be available in their upcoming Snapdragon 835 chipset. Quick Charge™ 4 continues to build on making fast charging an integral part of modern smartphones and consumer...
AN INTUITIVE LOOK AT ELECTROCHEMICAL IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY (EIS)
For the average reader, electrochemical impedance spectroscopy, often abbreviated as EIS, is more than a mouthful. Understanding its utility can be relegated to the category of unresolved mysteries. Today’s post will shed some light and a little intuitive thinking...
State-of-the-art lithium-ion batteries, whether used in smartphones or electric vehicles, all rely on the same fundamental cell structure: two opposing electrodes with an intermediate insulating separator layer, with lithium ions shuffling between the two electrodes...
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