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Exide Technologies is the world's second-largest producer of automotive lead acid batteries
Lead-acid battery

Lead-acid batteries, invented in 1859 by France physicist Gaston Plant?, are the oldest type of rechargeable battery. Despite having the second lowest energy-to-weight ratio and a correspondingly low energy-to-volume ratio, their ability to supply high surge currents means that the cells maintain a relatively large power-to-weight ratio....
 for automotive and industrial applications. The Company’s four global business groups – Transportation Americas, Transportation Europe and Rest of World, Industrial Energy Americas and Industrial Energy Europe and Rest of World – provide a comprehensive range of stored electrical energy products and services for industrial and transportation applications.

Transportation markets include original-equipment and aftermarket automotive, heavy-duty truck, agricultural and marine applications, and new technologies for hybrid vehicles and automotive applications.






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Exide Technologies is the world's second-largest producer of automotive lead acid batteries
Lead-acid battery

Lead-acid batteries, invented in 1859 by France physicist Gaston Plant?, are the oldest type of rechargeable battery. Despite having the second lowest energy-to-weight ratio and a correspondingly low energy-to-volume ratio, their ability to supply high surge currents means that the cells maintain a relatively large power-to-weight ratio....
 for automotive and industrial applications. The Company’s four global business groups – Transportation Americas, Transportation Europe and Rest of World, Industrial Energy Americas and Industrial Energy Europe and Rest of World – provide a comprehensive range of stored electrical energy products and services for industrial and transportation applications.

Transportation markets include original-equipment and aftermarket automotive, heavy-duty truck, agricultural and marine applications, and new technologies for hybrid vehicles and automotive applications. Industrial markets include network power applications such as telecommunications systems, electric utilities, railroads, photovoltaic (solar-power related) and uninterruptible power supply (UPS), and motive-power applications including lift trucks, mining and other commercial vehicles.

Exide bought out the dry battery business of a company called Brittania Batteries Ltd.

During World War II
World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
, Exide (then Electric Storage Battery Company) was a major supplier of batteries for U.S. Navy submarine
Submarine

A submarine is a watercraft capable of independent operation below water. It differs from a submersible, which has only limited underwater capability....
s and primary contractor for batteries used in the Mark 18
Mark 18 torpedo

The Mark 18 torpedo was an electric torpedo used by the US Navy during World War II.The Mark 18 was built in competition to the Bureau of Ordnance electric torpedoes, which had been in development at the Naval Torpedo Station, Rhode Island , Newport, Rhode Island, Rhode Island, since the 1920s, in particular the Mark 2 torpedo, originated i...
 electric torpedo.

It is a sponsor of the Cornell Automotive X-Prize Team.

Exide Technologies has signed an agreement to be to be the sole lead-acid battery supplier for the REVA
Reva

Reva was a series of automobiles made by Dan Werbin and Holger Br?nby at Reva g?rd in Sweden in the mid 1960s. They were two seated coup? mid engined sports cars ....
 (Revolutionary Electric Vehicle Alternative) car-making project in Bangalore, India.

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