Guides for buyers sourcing home batteries
Written for the person who has to sign the purchase order: what changes between ODM and OEM, what can actually be customised, where an MOQ comes from, what a 10 kWh system costs, and how to qualify a supplier without flying to China.
ODM vs OEM for home batteries: what actually changes
ODM means the factory owns the design and your brand goes on it; OEM means the design is yours. On 10 kWh LFP home batteries most "OEM" offers are ODM with a new label. Here is what actually differs, and why certification ownership decides it.
Private label home battery: what can be customised, and what cannot
A realistic list of what changes on a private label home battery at 50, 200 and 1000 units, what does not change at any sane volume, and what each change does to your certification.
How MOQ is really calculated for a private label battery
MOQ is not a policy number a supplier invents. It is the largest of six arithmetic floors: cells, sheet metal, harness, printing, packaging and certification scope. Worked example included.
What a 10 kWh private label battery actually costs
Cost stack for a 10.24 kWh LFP home battery: cell pack, hybrid inverter, assembly and test, and what is not in the ex-works price. Based on a June 2026 supplier quotation, with estimates labelled as estimates.
Eight questions that separate a trading company from a factory
A practical checklist for qualifying a Chinese home battery supplier: certificate holder, cell traceability, spare BMS boards, who signs the declaration, line verification, year-six service, warranty exclusions, and real defect rates.
Numbers with dates, or no numbers
Every figure in these guides carries a source and a date, and anything that is our own estimate is labelled as an estimate rather than dressed up as a market fact. Where we do not have a verified number, we describe the process instead of inventing one.