Read About How Your “Car Battery” Was Made(Part1)

Eric Roberts of www.batteriesontheweb.co.uk Explains in easy terms “how your car battery was made”. This is a two part Blog
When people think about a battery they think about a car battery. The batteries used in cars are known as “ starter batteries”. These batteries give a short powerful burst of strong electric current to start the car engine, especially on a cold winters morning.
Most car batteries have five main components. A strong plastic casing,( these can be made in any colour), but due to re-cycling the most popular colour is now “black”. Positive and negative plates that were always made of lead, but due to the advent of “maintenance free” sealed batteries can be made of lead- alloys. “Plate separators” are usually made of a synthetic product. Battery acid is used and is a mixture of “sulphuric acid” and water in a diluted form, this is also better known as “Electrolyte”. The connection point that joins the cells that form the positive and negative terminals, are usually made of lead or lead alloys the same as the plates are made of. Pennine king power batteries are sealed maintenance free batteries .

Batteries are usually made the following way. The first part of the process is to produce a plastic container, these are usually made of polypropylene, the manufacturers also mix in a large amount of recycled materials, this process produces a black casing, if a coloured casing is required the ingredients have to pure. The most typical type of casings are made for 12 volt batteries. These casings are split into six compartments to make six two volt cells. These cells look like a row of large ice cubes. When the battery is finished a lid is made of the same material and is fitted to the casing and sealed.
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