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A graph showing recent nickel strip prices

Jun 13, 2022

Nickel Strip Pricing

Driven largely by battery manufacturing, the EV sector and stainless steel production, nickel demand has ramped up in recent years, with 2021 seeing 17% demand growth. Combine that with supply disruption and inflationary pressure and the result has been wild price fluctuations and 50% price increase over the past 12 months.

18650 cylindrical cells in Higherwire heat shrink

Jun 09, 2022

Higherwire Branded Heat Shrink!

Higherwire We are excited to announce that we have created 18650 heat shrink sleeves with our logo! Since we repurpose 18650 cells for our battery assemblies, we have to deal with a lot of damaged heat shrink, tape, and...

Mar 17, 2022

How Much Capacity Do 4.35 Volt Cells Lose at 4.20 Volts?

In an effort to wring the most power density out of the 18650 form factor, a few years ago some manufacturers began slightly modifying the chemistries of their batteries. This allowed them to increase voltage and therefore squeeze out a...

3 comments ·Feb 21, 2022

Where are the 18650s?

18650's You might have noticed that much of our stock of many 18650 cells is running low or out. We’re still analyzing cells! But a few things have conspired to keep us from updating stock. First, and this is...