Behind Battery Procure: Who Operates This Guide and What It Stands For

Battery Procure is a procurement guide for teams in the United States that buy custom lithium-ion battery packs. It is written for the people who do that work: OEM engineering groups defining a pack requirement, sourcing and supply chain staff qualifying suppliers and auditing assembly lines, and buyers who have to turn all of it into a landed cost and a supply agreement that holds.

The guide follows the decision chain in the order buyers actually move through it — requirement definition, supplier qualification and factory audits, RFQ evaluation, cost and landed-cost modeling, compliance and dangerous goods documentation, and the supply terms that make a program production-ready. Each stage is treated on its own terms, because each stage is where a program either gets solid footing or does not.

The site is operated by Cobalt & Current. Battery Procure is the publication brand; Cobalt & Current is the operating identity behind it and the byline that appears on the articles. Cobalt & Current is the shared byline of a group of United States sourcing and quality professionals who work in custom lithium-ion pack procurement. Between them they have handled cell sourcing, pack assembly audits, and dangerous goods documentation for OEM programs. The operator does not work anonymously.

Articles here are sourced from invited customers — buyers who audit factories, write RFQs, break down costs, and negotiate contracts in this industry every day — who write from their own experience doing that work. Those contributions are published under the byline Cobalt & Current.

The editorial stance is narrow on purpose. Suppliers are evaluated against one consistent standard, and the guide does not recommend any specific supplier, including the operator itself. Battery Procure is a procurement resource, not a sales channel, and nothing on the site should be read as a pitch for anyone on the supply side.

There are also things this guide does not do. It does not publish real-time prices. It does not rank suppliers. It does not give legal advice. Those are not gaps waiting to be filled later; they sit outside what a guide of this kind can state honestly, and a buyer assembling a sourcing decision should get them from a commercial quote, their own qualification work, and qualified counsel instead.

If you have a question about the material, a correction, or experience from your own program that belongs in the guide, reach the team through the contact page or write to [email protected].