About Us
SERVICE PROVIDER
High-quality battery manufacturing using modern technology.
ENGINEERING
Advanced battery engineering with cutting-edge technology and high performance.
MANUFACTURING
High-quality battery manufacturing using modern technology.
SINCE 2014
A Decade of Industrial Battery Experience — Built Into Everything We Make
Pulsar Industries is not a company that sells batteries. It is a company built by engineers who have spent their careers designing and commissioning battery systems for some of the most demanding industrial applications in the world. The team that operates Pulsar Industries today is the same team that developed lithium battery systems for trolley buses, underground mining vehicles, industrial forklifts running three-shift operations, and large-scale stationary energy storage installations. That experience shapes how we think about every project we take on.
We are headquartered in Austin, Texas, and we manufacture in a Texas facility. We have chosen to build domestically not because it is easy — it is not — but because it is the right decision for our customers, for the reliability of our supply chain, and for the long-term integrity of the products we make. When something goes wrong, we can fix it. When a customer wants to visit and see their product being made, they can. When a tariff announcement changes the cost structure for imported competitors, our pricing does not move.
Our History
2014 — Founded as Voltabox of Texas
The company traces its roots to 2014, when Voltabox of Texas Inc. was established in Cedar Park, Texas as the North American subsidiary of Voltabox AG — a German battery company that would later list on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. The Texas team was focused from the start on high-stakes industrial applications. Among the first major programs was the development of lithium battery systems for trolley bus operations in US cities, where reliability in daily cycling service and extreme ambient temperatures was non-negotiable. Simultaneously, the team developed battery packs for underground mining vehicles — applications where thermal management, vibration tolerance, and safety in confined spaces created engineering challenges that pushed the limits of available technology.
The early Voltabox of Texas work also included idle mitigation systems for diesel locomotives — an application that required battery systems capable of providing enough energy to start and run a locomotive’s hotel loads during the hours when the main engine would otherwise idle at significant fuel cost. Forklift battery packs and large stationary energy storage systems rounded out the early portfolio, giving the team broad experience across the full range of lithium battery applications.
2017 — Voltabox AG IPO
In 2017, Voltabox AG raised USD 155 million in an initial public offering on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange under the ticker DB: VBX. The capital funded expansion into mining applications and the intralogistics sector — warehouse automation, automated guided vehicles, and other applications that were beginning the transition from lead-acid to lithium. The North American team grew alongside this expansion, taking on increasingly complex programs and establishing deep expertise in the regulatory and certification requirements for commercial lithium battery products in the US market.
2021 — Reorganization Following COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic created severe disruptions for capital-intensive manufacturing businesses globally, and Voltabox AG was not immune. Supply chain delays, project cancellations, and the broader economic disruption of 2020 and 2021 created significant financial pressure on the German parent. The parent company made the decision to divest the US and automotive business operations. Thomas Becker, who had led the North American operation since 2014, took the decisive step of keeping the core engineering team together through the transition rather than allowing the expertise to disperse.
Under Becker’s leadership, the team pivoted to a consulting and product design model — providing battery engineering expertise to companies entering the renewable energy and electrification space. The team’s deep knowledge of cell selection, system architecture, BMS development, and regulatory compliance proved highly valuable to startups and manufacturers who needed to accelerate their battery product programs without building internal expertise from scratch.
2023 — Pulsar Industries North America Inc.
In 2023, Thomas Becker formally acquired the North American operations and rebranded the company as Pulsar Industries North America Inc. The rebranding reflected a strategic expansion beyond consulting and engineering into in-house product manufacturing. Pulsar Industries launched its first manufactured products — the PulseTrek mobile power trailer, the GridGo portable home backup system, and the Indie 12 off-grid inverter — applying the same engineering discipline that had been developed over nine years of industrial battery programs to a new generation of residential, commercial, and infrastructure products.
CEO MESSAGE
Message from Thomas Becker, CEO
I started my career working on lithium batteries because I believed they were going to change the way the world stores and uses energy. Twenty years later, that belief has been more than validated. But the industry has also developed some bad habits along the way — a tendency toward planned obsolescence, a dependence on opaque supply chains, a willingness to accept foreign technology dependencies in products that power critical infrastructure.
Pulsar Industries exists to do battery engineering the right way. That means we own the intellectual property on the products we build.
It means we manufacture domestically so our customers are not exposed to the volatility of international supply chains and tariff regimes. It means we design for serviceability — so a product that we sell today can still be repaired and operated in twenty years. And it means we apply the same engineering rigor to a residential home backup system that we applied to battery packs for underground mining trucks.
The team at Pulsar Industries is the same team that has been working on these problems for a decade. That continuity matters. Our engineers have institutional knowledge about what works and what fails in real-world deployments that cannot be replicated quickly. Every project we take on benefits from that accumulated experience. I am proud of what we have built, and I believe the work ahead is more important and more interesting than anything we have done yet.
CAPABILITIES
Full-Stack Battery Capabilities
- Battery system consulting: technology selection, compliance roadmaps, supply chain strategy
- Mechanical and electrical engineering: cell to module to complete system
- BMS hardware design and firmware development (source code owned by Pulsar)
- Thermal management simulation and design
- Prototype fabrication and performance validation
- In-house manufacturing at Texas facility
- Regulatory certification support: UL, CE, ISO, IATF, UN38.3
- Agricultural operations and rural facilities with limited grid access
- Mining equipment electrification
- Post-delivery technical support and warranty service
OUR STARTS
We provide truly solutions.
Voltabox Founded (2014)
Inception in Germany and Texas with deliveries of battery systems for Trolleybuses in the US.
Voltabox IPO in Germny (2017)
USD 155 Mn raised at Frankfurt Stock Exchange. Expansion into mining and intralogistics applications.
Divestment & Reorganization (2021)
Voltabox AG Germany was hit hard by the COVID-19 slowdown. Subsequent layoffs and cash shortages resulted in the divestment of its U.S. and automotive business operations. Voltabox U.S. emerged under Mr. Becker as a battery consulting company.
Pulsar Industries Emerges (2023)
Rebranding of Voltabox U.S. as Pulsar Industries North America, with the acquisition of the former team and the addition of consulting, engineering, and manufacturing services.