The electric vehicle is not new. It is a comeback. A battery maker can say this with some family pride: electric cars outsold gasoline cars in parts of the world a century ago, died for fifty years, and returned. Understanding why — and what the modern EV asks of its battery — is the clearest … Read more
No battery of consequence works alone. A 2-volt cell is the atom of the lead-acid world; everything bigger — the 48 V telecom bank, the 110 V substation battery, the 80 V forklift tray — is cells in formation. Two formations exist. In series, positive to negative, voltages add and capacity stays: sixty 2 V, … Read more
The lead-acid battery has one environmental credential no newer chemistry can yet match: its circle closes. In organised recycling systems, recovery rates for lead-acid batteries are routinely reported around 99% — a figure that has made it, by many accounts, the most successfully recycled manufactured product in the world. The lead in a new battery … Read more
🌎 Lea esta página en español Every undersized battery bank was sized by wishful thinking; every oversized one by fear. Proper sizing is neither — it is a short chain of honest arithmetic, and it starts not with the battery but with the duty: what must keep running, at what power, for how long, how … Read more
OPzV is German shorthand for a very specific promise. Under the DIN naming of Europe, O stands for Ortsfest (stationary), Pz for PanZerplatte (the armoured tubular plate), and V for Verschlossen (closed) — though no lead-acid cell is ever truly closed, so the V is often read as “valve-regulated” instead: a pressure-relief valve, typically opening … Read more
There is no best battery — there is only the best battery for a duty. Every chemistry is a bundle of trade-offs: energy against cost, cycle life against price, cold-weather manners against maintenance. This page is the comparison table done honestly — including the fine print most tables omit — and the selection method that … Read more
Start-stop technology saved fuel and murdered batteries — until the battery was redesigned. When cars began switching their engines off at every red light, conventional starter batteries started dying in months, and an entire battery category was engineered in response: the EFB, the Enhanced Flooded Battery. This is the story of why the old battery … Read more
The solid-state battery is the most promised battery in the world. Swap the flammable liquid electrolyte of a lithium-ion cell for a solid, and a chain of good things is supposed to follow: no fire risk, lithium-metal anodes, more energy in less space. The physics is real. The engineering is hard. Here is the idea, … Read more
The nickel-metal hydride battery stores hydrogen without a tank — inside a metal alloy. For a decade it was the battery of the hybrid car; today it is the quiet professional of consumer cells and proven vehicle fleets. It also happens to be one of the best classrooms in electrochemistry, because its arithmetic is beautifully … Read more
An honest guide to lithium-ion — written by a lead-acid house. We compete with this chemistry daily, which is exactly why we refuse to caricature it: lithium-ion is a superb piece of electrochemistry with real strengths, real limits and a Nobel Prize on its shelf. Here is how it came to be, how it works, … Read more