ROBOTICS & LOGISTICS

Fast-charging batteries for autonomous logistics – including at −30°C

Warehouse robots run on uptime. XNO® keeps them running — including in operating conditions where conventional battery chemistries fall significantly short.

THE CHALLENGE

Warehouse robots
cannot afford to stop

Automated warehouses and logistics operations cannot afford downtime. Every minute a robot spends charging rather than operating is a direct productivity loss — and at fleet scale, charging downtime can require significantly more robots to meet the same throughput target. The battery is not peripheral to the economics of automation: it is central.

LFP and lead-acid batteries require extended charging windows, degrade under sustained high-cycle duty, and cannot charge reliably at low temperatures. In frozen and cold-chain environments this becomes a hard operational constraint: charging performance below 0°C deteriorates significantly.

WHY XNO®

Two high-value AGV applications

1.
Cold-chain warehouse robotics

XNO® charges at full rated capacity down to −30°C without impact on cycle life or safety — enabling continuous operation in frozen environments without warm-up zones or extended charging windows. An XNO®-based AGV pack in a frozen warehouse is also significantly smaller than alternatives for the same duty cycle, because XNO®'s fast charge rate allows the battery to top up rapidly at every operational pause.

2.
Intralogistics AMRs – opportunity charging

In ambient-temperature operations, XNO®'s fast charge rate enables opportunity charging at every operational pause — at pick stations, during loading, at interchange points. The battery can be dramatically smaller than LFP alternatives, with a fraction of the charging infrastructure required. Cycle life of >50,000 cycles means the battery outlasts the vehicle under sustained AGV duty.

PERFORMANCE

The numbers that matter

10C Symmetric

Continuous operation in frozen environments without derating or warm-up zones

Sub-10 min charge

Opportunity charging at every pause; smaller battery, less infrastructure

>50,000 cycles

Battery outlasts the vehicle; no mid-life replacement under sustained AGV duty

EUCAR Level 3

No thermal runaway risk in dense automated warehouse environments

PRODUCTS

Engineered for
this application

XNO®-based battery solutions for AGV and AMR applications — compact module and pack formats suited to industrial robot platforms, including configurations compatible with existing LTO-based AGV architectures.