Shorai: Revolutionizing Starter Batteries

The Yoshimura Suzuki Factory team
uses Shorai batteries to win races

If you’re still relying on a traditional lead-acid battery to crank your bike, you’re putting all your hopes on a technology from 1859 to get your cycle started. Is that really what you want to be doing?

Yep, the venerable lead-acid battery is over 150 years old and has changed little in that time. With its puny power-to-weight ratio and power-to-size ratio a lead-acid battery isn’t much more than a big lead weight you’re carrying around that’s killing your bike’s performance and isn’t even that good at cranking it in the first place!

Lithium Iron Phosphate Batteries – Technology for the 21st Century

Do you really want to keep using the
ancient technology of lead-acid batteries?

Lithium-ion batteries have changed our lives for the better. They are small, lightweight and power our cellphones, laptops, tablets, cameras, cordless drills, hedge trimmers and leaf blowers. If your iPhone used a lead-acid battery it would be the size (and weight) of a cinderblock.

Some clever guy figured out that using iron in a lithium-ion battery would increase its lifespan and give it a bigger power density (the ‘punch’ a battery needs to crank a starter motor), both factors that are ideal for a starter battery.

Shorai Head the Switch from Lead-Acid to Lithium Batteries

Shorai took the new lithium iron phosphate technology and developed high performance lithium starter batteries for motorcycles, ATVs and personal watercraft. Because of lithium batteries’ advantages in size, weight and power delivery they are perfect for these vehicles and their performance characteristics.

Shorai LFX batteries are lighter,
smaller and more powerful than
lead-acid batteries

The benefits of a Shorai lithium iron phosphate battery include:

Up to 80% lighter than lead-acid batteries.
Higher voltage means better cranking and faster startup times.
Contains no poisonous lead and no dangerous acid.
Holds charges longer with no chemical degradation.
Backed by Shorai 3-year warranty.

Of course you can still keep crossing your fingers every morning that your old lead-acid battery will get your bike started with its 150-year old technology, or you could be smart and join Shorai in the long overdue switch from ancient lead-acid batteries to lighter, efficient, high performance lithium iron phosphate batteries.

By John Bone

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