Car Battery Applications

 

The humble lead acid battery is used in many of the motorized vehicles we see and use on a daily basis. Such as our cars, motorbikes, buses, lawn mowers, golf carts, boats and many more. However, the use of this wonderful invention is perhaps at it's most effective in places we don't regularly think of. Many of our critical infrastructure use lead acid batteries, like those found in your car when regular power sources fail.

 

Hospitals - Lead acid batteries power emergency lighting and keep computers and vital medical machinery working. These batteries provide life saving power instantly when required, keeping systems online and keeping people alive. These batteries do this using the same chemical reaction your own car battery uses to start your car.

 

Telephone lines - If it weren't for lead acid batteries our telephone systems would not be able to maintain vital phone calls during a blackout. The computers processing the calls would fail and peoples lives could be jeopardized if it weren't for lead acid batteries on standby for just such an event.

 

Railway lines - Lead acid batteries backup the signaling of train lines to insure that power to these critical signs is not lost and trains are not left without directions. The lives of many hundreds of people can depend on the technology of these batteries.

 

Air Traffic Control - Ever wondered how the airport keeps all those lights on during a blackout? Among other things batteries. In exactly the same way your car battery keeps your headlights on, at the airport it keeps just about everything on. So planes can continue to take off and land and people can get off their flight safely.

 

There are many other systems and vehicles that apply the the same technology as your own car battery to keep people alive and systems online. So when you turn that key in your ignition and you hear the crank of the motor and you feel the rumble of the car you can think also about all those other people who a benefiting all over the world in many different ways from the same chemical reaction you just initiated from your humble car battery.