Part of the problem is most of the population of United
States believes our money grows on trees.
So we print up money with nothing behind it for what we cannot afford to
buy.
The dollar has gone down in value, do to our spending as a nation.
Lead never was real durable, and the price of all metals has gone up.
Its a good thing battery chemistry has improved because now there are
better options.
A 40AH CALB cell has about the same performance as 65 to 80AH lead acid and
far more service life. The real cost difference between lead and LiFePo4 is
not as great. LiFePo4 has not only come down some but has been improved
over the last few years. More capacity and longer cycle life.
As an example the 100AH CALB CA cells are 114AH or higher at a 1C load (A
100 amp load). Yet you buy the cell based on a 100AH price. Most lead acid
capacity testing is done at far lower loads.
I can provide CALB cells for the lowest prices in the United States.
You can see them at this link
A few on this list has already bought CALB cells.
Don Blazer
In a message dated 8/15/2013 3:06:04 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
ev_dave13 yahoo com writes:
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!
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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