B27
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'Most Boat owners' includes a lot of people with small low tech boats.He said lithium house banks. I see no advantage in lithium starter batteries. Its an ideal application for lead. Top end production boats are starting to be sold with house lithium banks now so the move to lithium is going to happen
A lot of RIBs, dories and sundry power boats.
The average boat in our river must be 20+ years old.
There's a big population of boats out there which, if they have a house battery, also view it as a back-up start battery.
Changes are happening, but take a very long time to work through the system.
I've got a few friends with motorhomes and vans of varying descriptions, an awful lot of shiny new ones leaving the factory with lead leisure batteries it seems? I think it will be some years yet before a lead leisure battery is hard to find or uneconomical to buy. fundamentally, they are cheap to make and highly recyclable.
OTOH, the UPS industry seemed to adopt LiFe quite suddenly.
It could be that better drop in solutions and price parity are not so far away.