Time to give lead-acid a leg up?

摘要

In my first six months as Editor of Batteries & Energy Storage Technology magazine it has become abundantly clear that, in the lead-acid industry at least, conservatism is the watchword. Given lead-acid batteries remain competent, consistent and cheap, who can blame them? Companies the world over are making a decent living from supplying equipment and components for the production and sale of, mostly, the good old SLI lead-acid battery.