Re: (ET) When did they start making car batteries out of gold?? :-)

[David Brandt <ev_dave13 yahoo com>]

Yep, I go through more than my fair share of car batteries ever since my hawker backups finally kicked the bucket years ago, and they ran about $75 in 2004, and have been around the $100 mark for the mid-grade ones for a few years now.  I don't know why.  They certainly don't last any longer!

 

David Brandt

From: tb <tbamc gbta net>
To: et <Elec-trak cosmos phy tufts edu>
Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2013 3:48 AM
Subject: (ET) When did they start making car batteries out of gold?? :-)

I've been familiar with the price of deep-cycle batteries for the E-T the last 4 or 5 years, but for no definite reason (weight, sales volume, etc) thought they were considerably more expensive than car batteries.

Had to buy a car battery recently and found that O'Reilly had nothing less than $105.  That's not much less than new E-T batteries and a huge increase in the last 10 years or so.

I would GUESS that technology and manufacturing isn't significantly different in the last 10, 20, 30 (?) years so just curious as to why the big jump?  Is lead scarce?  EPA?  Greed?  :-)

Thanks.

Thon
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