Progress towards an advanced lead–acid battery for use in electric vehicles

The attributes which are essential for a battery to be successful as the energy store for an electric vehicle are reviewed. These are then matched against the substantial advances in the technology of valve-regulated lead–acid ŽVRLA. batteries that have been posted during the course of the technical programme of the Advanced Lead–Acid Battery Consortium ŽALABC.. A project which was designed to draw together several desirable features, identified during the early years of the ALABC programme, into a test battery has provided much useful information. ...