Ron Ananian, The Car Doctor - Interview Summary – Optima Batteries with Daryl Brockman
Ron talks with Daryl Brockman from Optima Batteries about how today’s vehicles demand more from their batteries. With start/stop systems and heavy electronics, AGM batteries are the go-to for reliability and long life. Optima offers RedTop for standard loads, YellowTop for high-demand systems, and new lithium options for cars, trucks, powersports, RVs, and marine use.
Highlights include Optima’s CPR built-in jumpstart reserve, the PowerLink dongle for easy monitoring and charging, and a Bluetooth app that can wake a battery without popping the hood. Backed by Clarios, the world’s largest battery maker, Optima’s products carry top safety certifications and advanced lithium iron phosphate chemistry for cold-weather performance and long cycle life.
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Welcome back. You know it's getting to be that time
of year. Well, actually that time of year for batteries
is probably year round now because, as we've said for
a long time, right, we see more batteries fail I
think in summer than we do in winter. But it's
always a good time to talk about batteries, and I
thought it would be appropriate. We've reached out to Daryl Brockman.
He is product planning over at OPTIMUMA battery and we're
(00:30):
excited to have Daryl with us and talk about all
the new things that Optima is doing. Darrel, welcome to
the Car Doctor.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Thanks so much for having me. Great to be here.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
I need to put a battery in my car. Let's
start the simple conversation here, right, I need to put
a battery in my car. I've got a two thousand,
twenty Toyota Camry. It's got autos start, it's an automatic,
it's got all the bells and whistles. Help me put
a battery in my car, Daryl, what am I looking for?
Speaker 2 (00:57):
I mean, usually what you would recommend as an AGM battery,
especially if you have start stop in your vehicle that
is much harder on the battery the battery is going
to be instead of starting the battery, you know, once
when you leave for work, and another time when when
you're coming back for work. You might be starting the
car twenty or thirty times. And the AGM battery is
(01:20):
what's going to give you the longest life. You know,
in today's modern vehicles, the electrical loads on vehicles over
the last ten years has grown exponentially and it's not
expected to decrease. And the old flooded batteries just don't
have the life and they're not designed to meet those
(01:41):
kinds of you know, much higher electrical requirements that today's
vehicles have.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Is it a safe assumption? Dangerous word on family radio?
But is it a safe assumption to assume that, Well,
if I've got an AGM battery, I don't have a
secondary battery for start stop or you know. And I
guess the other half of that question becomes, if I
do have that second, smaller battery, if I'm changing my
(02:06):
main battery, I should change my second battery too, correct.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
I mean, vehicles can have two and three batteries. In
an EV. There's the motive battery, the one that makes
the vehicle move. There'll be a twelve volt battery that's
usually powering the cabin functions or some you know, some
of the core functionality. And then in even an internal
combustion engine vehicle, you know, a normal vehicle, those often
(02:33):
have two batteries now where they'll have the starting battery
and then they'll have a small auxiliary battery that's providing
some backup power for some other critical systems.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Now, Optima would make a battery for my camera, wouldn't they?
Speaker 2 (02:46):
We do. We have actually, so we have our AGM line.
We have red top and yellow top AGM batteries that
your camera probably takes a group thirty five battery. We
make that in both red and yellow top or red
top batteries or what would be used in a vehicle
that has more typical electrical loads where the battery is
(03:07):
used to start the vehicle and then the all charging
system has enough power to keep the to maintain electrical equilibrium.
A yellow top battery. If you had a big audio
system in your car or something with exceptional electrical demands,
we'd suggest one of our yellow top batteries. That's a
dual purpose battery that has great starting power in addition
(03:29):
to the ability to be cycled more deeply and have long,
long cycle life, So you know.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
You've got them. You've got the batteries from my car, right,
But then you get into like what they call powersport vehicles,
you know, like a power sport Like why do powersport
vehicles like ATV snowmobiles, wave runners, they need a specific
type of battery, right, as opposed to batteries that I
might use in my camera or is that Can I
take my camera battery and put it into a power
(03:57):
into a power sport vehicle if it fits?
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Sure? And the biggest difference between a power sports battery
and an automotive batteries that those power sports batteries are
much smaller. Optimate actually introduced a line of lithium power
sports batteries about two years ago, and they have a
lot of great features lithium batteries. One of the advantages
is they're very lightweight. A lot of people, you know,
(04:21):
if you have a bike that's or a power sports
vehicle that's more performance oriented, a lithium battery is much
lighter than the lead acid battery replaces, so it'll the
vehicle handle better and the Again, those batteries have great
cycle life. One of the features that are lithium power
sports batteries have that really people really like is our
(04:44):
optimus CPR function and that's what we call our built
in jump starter. Basically, when the battery gets if the
battery gets discharged down to thirty five percent state of charge,
if you leave the heated grips on on your motorcycle,
or if you leave the whip lights on your side
by overnight, once that battery gets down to thirty five percent,
the battery automatically will go into sleep mode. It'll shut
(05:06):
down in that thirty five percent that it holds in reserve.
It acts like a built in jumpstart. You just have
to press the button on the power link that's included
with the battery. It wakes the battery up and you
can start it up and be on your way.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Wow, that's kind of cool. That's neat. Now is that
part of lithium technology, because my other question was, you
know you have and as when you talk about your
lithium technology, is that hypercore lithium because or is hypercore
lithium technology and optimum battery something specific also.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
So there are a lot of different lithium chemistries in
the market. The lithium chemistry that's used in cell phones
is different than the lithium chemistry that's commonly used in
electric vehicles, and the lithium chemistry that is used in
our batteries is different than both of those. Optima uses
a lithium ironed phosphate chemistry, which is known for having
(05:58):
excellent capabilities to deliver a burst of power for starting,
but it's also widely considered the safest and the most
abuse tolerant lithium chemistry. And then even within a given
chemistry type, our hypercore technology with a different for a
given cell chemistry, you can tune the performance attributes of it,
(06:21):
and that's where our hypercore chemistry comes in. For example,
our Q eight six automotive, starting withium automotive starting battery,
it can crank down the minus twenty fahrenheit. And if
you check other lithium batteries that they are on the market,
they generally recommend that they're not used certainly below zero
fahrenheit and sometimes even ten or twenty degrees fahrenheit. So
(06:44):
I'm in Milwaukee and I can even use one of
those batteries here.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
So you're saying, you know, a powersport vehicle an ATV,
a snowmobile, a wave runner that's gonna that can take
a lithium battery. But you're also saying you have lithium
technology available for cars, for my my camera, for my
pickup truck, for my whatever.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
We have a full line of lithium batteries. We have
six different power sports batteries, different sizes to cover over
ninety five percent of the power sports vehicles on the
on the road, everything from a little fifty cc scooter
up to a big big V twin touring bike, side
by sides and everything in between. We also have a
(07:25):
we have a couple of lithium batteries for marine and
RV applications, and we have an auto and truck lithium
starting battery as well.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
So if you make a group thirty five lithium battery
for my camera, right, I'm not saying you do. If
you do and I want to and I want to
put it in, is it a bolt in or do
I need to do something special? Do I have to
change something because my battery was originally a GM or
lead acid or whatever it might have been. Is there
is there a difference to the way it's going to charge.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Or work so the physical the physical size of the battery.
We don't actually make the battery that would a lithium
battery for your camera, right, Lithium automotive battery we make.
It's at H six. It's the most common size used
in vehicles in the US. It is a it's a
direct drop in for those drop in replacement for those vehicles.
(08:12):
And the reason that's possible is both lead acid batteries
and lithium batteries, the ideal charging voltage is very close
to fourteen point four volts. That's also the output the
power output level of the vehicle of vehicle charging systems.
So that's what enables you to be able to put
a lithium battery into a vehicle that originally had a
(08:35):
let acid battery without having to change anything with the
charging system or anything else.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
And that lithium battery gives me the advantage that I'll
have more reliable starting power in colder weather and more durability,
longer lasting, and.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
That and the because the lithium batteries they have, they
have basically they have a battery management system. It's basically
a computer inside, and that enables a bunch of really
cool features for our lithium automotive battery. I was talking
about that built in jumpstart function. So if you go
to the airport, leave your Domemite on and jump on
the plane, you come back a couple of days later
(09:16):
and your battery's dead. Our lithium automotive batteries have that
same Optimus CPR function. The cool thing about the automotive
batteries is you just need to All you have to
do is open up the Optima Bluetooth app on your
phone and it reactivates automatically turns the battery on. You
don't have to open the hood, you don't have to
tear up our you even start the battery vehicle up again.
(09:40):
Just open up the app from your driver's seat and
a way you go.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
You're making it way too easy, Darryl, Darryl, stay put
to take a pause on the side. I'm running any
in the card doctor. Let's let me come back and
want to talk a little bit about the power link
system and some of the other things you've got going
on over there at Optima Batteries. We're here with Daryl
Brockman from Optima Batteries. I'm un an any in the
card doctor. I'll be back right after this. M M M. Hey,
(10:30):
Look we came back Ron and Andy and the card
doc room here with Daryl Brockman. He is the in
product planning over there at Optimum Batteries Daryl. When we
pulled away, I wanted to jump in real quick too
about the power Link system. Can you talk about that
real quick?
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Sure? So? Powerlink it's a proprietary system with multiple patterns
for battery communication, control and charging. It's a it's accorded
dongle that's connected to the battery and it allows you
to know the battery status as multicolored LEDs. So for example,
the LED all flash green if the battery is fully charged,
it'll flash red if the battery needs to be charged.
(11:08):
There's a button on it. It allows you to shut
the battery down for off season storage or if you're
railing your side by side to the trails and you
want to don't want to have to worry about it
being powered up. You can just press the button for
three seconds. It puts the battery to sleep. I mentioned
Optimus pr previously are built in jumpstart function. It's using
(11:29):
that button on the power Link is how you'd wake
the battery up again. And then finally there's a plug
on the end that enables you to directly plug one
of Optimus withium enable chargers in Freezy maintenance, your battery
power sports vehicles and motorcycles, the battery is usually not
very convenient to get to. It can take a half
hour of wrenching to even get to the point where
(11:51):
you can see the battery. So this cord of dongle
allows you to basically like an extension cord so that
you can charge your battery conveniently without having to break
out you run.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
It's sort of like that remote access cord you see
sticking out of the grill of like a diesel plow
truck when they want to get to the block heater
or something. You're you're just making an access point easy
to get to.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Very similar, and we combine that charging capability with the
LEDs to the no battery status and the ability to
control the batteries.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Right and then it feeds is that what feeds back
to the app on the phone if we're doing that.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
So the power sports batteries they have the power link.
Our Group thirty one batteries that are used for boats
and RBS r QH six batteries that would be used
in a number of cars and trucks. Those all have
a Bluetooth app, and that Bluetooth app not only you know,
the first question is why do I need an app
(12:46):
for my battery. I don't care what my battery is doing.
Probably the most useful feature that it has that people
really have been, you know, really very interested in is
if that battery gets discharged down to thirty five percent,
it will automatically go to sleep. That they're optim of
CPR function. I was talking about just opening up by
(13:06):
You just have to open up the app, and by
doing that and connecting to the battery, it activates the
battery and wakes it back up again when that built
in jumpstart function has been has been activated. So you
don't even have to open up the hood of the vehicle.
You don't have to make physical contact with the you know,
dig up your trunk.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
I want to talk about safety certifications. Why are they
so important?
Speaker 2 (13:31):
The safety certifications? I mean, there's a lot of lithium
battery manufacturers and brands on the market. Agency and safety
certifications are one way to know that the battery has
undergone rigorous testing to ensure safe operation. And there's both
sell and battery level certifications. Optima has both not only
for the US standards, but for international standards as well.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
So you know, when people are using lithium and we
hear lithium in the news all the time, right, we
know optims optim has done the research and that's where
the safety certifications are so important. That we're dealing with.
We're dealing with the you know, the cream of the crop,
so to speak. You guys are rich that that we're
dealing with a good quality of lithium battery and technology
(14:14):
behind it.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
If Clarius is engineering team. Clarius is the world's largest
battery manufacturer. The engineering team that supported development of these
Optima batteries their normal their normal role is developing low
voltage energy storage systems for major audio automakers. Clarios is
the world's largest supplier of low voltage energy storage systems
(14:39):
for automakers. That same engineering team with that with their
you know, robust product knowledge and experience with the technology
and battery management system development, that's the team that supported
development of these Optima batteries and it's really what enabled
what enables us to have such high performance, such a
unique and proprietary feature set and again to have that
(15:02):
long list of agency and safety certifications.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Yep, Daryl, where can the listeners go get more information?
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Optima Batteries dot com or our tech support line at
eight eight eight eight Optima.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Perfect, Daryl, We'll get together again. I'm Ron an Any
and the car Doctor. We'll be back right after this.
What abody feel much?
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Jeopretur rad
Welcome back. You know it's getting to be that time
of year. Well, actually that time of year for batteries
is probably year round now because, as we've said for
a long time, right, we see more batteries fail I
think in summer than we do in winter. But it's
always a good time to talk about batteries, and I
thought it would be appropriate. We've reached out to Daryl Brockman.
He is product planning over at OPTIMUMA battery and we're
(00:30):
excited to have Daryl with us and talk about all
the new things that Optima is doing. Darrel, welcome to
the Car Doctor.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Thanks so much for having me. Great to be here.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
I need to put a battery in my car. Let's
start the simple conversation here, right, I need to put
a battery in my car. I've got a two thousand,
twenty Toyota Camry. It's got autos start, it's an automatic,
it's got all the bells and whistles. Help me put
a battery in my car, Daryl, what am I looking for?
Speaker 2 (00:57):
I mean, usually what you would recommend as an AGM battery,
especially if you have start stop in your vehicle that
is much harder on the battery the battery is going
to be instead of starting the battery, you know, once
when you leave for work, and another time when when
you're coming back for work. You might be starting the
car twenty or thirty times. And the AGM battery is
(01:20):
what's going to give you the longest life. You know,
in today's modern vehicles, the electrical loads on vehicles over
the last ten years has grown exponentially and it's not
expected to decrease. And the old flooded batteries just don't
have the life and they're not designed to meet those
(01:41):
kinds of you know, much higher electrical requirements that today's
vehicles have.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Is it a safe assumption? Dangerous word on family radio?
But is it a safe assumption to assume that, Well,
if I've got an AGM battery, I don't have a
secondary battery for start stop or you know. And I
guess the other half of that question becomes, if I
do have that second, smaller battery, if I'm changing my
(02:06):
main battery, I should change my second battery too, correct.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
I mean, vehicles can have two and three batteries. In
an EV. There's the motive battery, the one that makes
the vehicle move. There'll be a twelve volt battery that's
usually powering the cabin functions or some you know, some
of the core functionality. And then in even an internal
combustion engine vehicle, you know, a normal vehicle, those often
(02:33):
have two batteries now where they'll have the starting battery
and then they'll have a small auxiliary battery that's providing
some backup power for some other critical systems.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Now, Optima would make a battery for my camera, wouldn't they?
Speaker 2 (02:46):
We do. We have actually, so we have our AGM line.
We have red top and yellow top AGM batteries that
your camera probably takes a group thirty five battery. We
make that in both red and yellow top or red
top batteries or what would be used in a vehicle
that has more typical electrical loads where the battery is
(03:07):
used to start the vehicle and then the all charging
system has enough power to keep the to maintain electrical equilibrium.
A yellow top battery. If you had a big audio
system in your car or something with exceptional electrical demands,
we'd suggest one of our yellow top batteries. That's a
dual purpose battery that has great starting power in addition
(03:29):
to the ability to be cycled more deeply and have long,
long cycle life, So you know.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
You've got them. You've got the batteries from my car, right,
But then you get into like what they call powersport vehicles,
you know, like a power sport Like why do powersport
vehicles like ATV snowmobiles, wave runners, they need a specific
type of battery, right, as opposed to batteries that I
might use in my camera or is that Can I
take my camera battery and put it into a power
(03:57):
into a power sport vehicle if it fits?
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Sure? And the biggest difference between a power sports battery
and an automotive batteries that those power sports batteries are
much smaller. Optimate actually introduced a line of lithium power
sports batteries about two years ago, and they have a
lot of great features lithium batteries. One of the advantages
is they're very lightweight. A lot of people, you know,
(04:21):
if you have a bike that's or a power sports
vehicle that's more performance oriented, a lithium battery is much
lighter than the lead acid battery replaces, so it'll the
vehicle handle better and the Again, those batteries have great
cycle life. One of the features that are lithium power
sports batteries have that really people really like is our
(04:44):
optimus CPR function and that's what we call our built
in jump starter. Basically, when the battery gets if the
battery gets discharged down to thirty five percent state of charge,
if you leave the heated grips on on your motorcycle,
or if you leave the whip lights on your side
by overnight, once that battery gets down to thirty five percent,
the battery automatically will go into sleep mode. It'll shut
(05:06):
down in that thirty five percent that it holds in reserve.
It acts like a built in jumpstart. You just have
to press the button on the power link that's included
with the battery. It wakes the battery up and you
can start it up and be on your way.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Wow, that's kind of cool. That's neat. Now is that
part of lithium technology, because my other question was, you
know you have and as when you talk about your
lithium technology, is that hypercore lithium because or is hypercore
lithium technology and optimum battery something specific also.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
So there are a lot of different lithium chemistries in
the market. The lithium chemistry that's used in cell phones
is different than the lithium chemistry that's commonly used in
electric vehicles, and the lithium chemistry that is used in
our batteries is different than both of those. Optima uses
a lithium ironed phosphate chemistry, which is known for having
(05:58):
excellent capabilities to deliver a burst of power for starting,
but it's also widely considered the safest and the most
abuse tolerant lithium chemistry. And then even within a given
chemistry type, our hypercore technology with a different for a
given cell chemistry, you can tune the performance attributes of it,
(06:21):
and that's where our hypercore chemistry comes in. For example,
our Q eight six automotive, starting withium automotive starting battery,
it can crank down the minus twenty fahrenheit. And if
you check other lithium batteries that they are on the market,
they generally recommend that they're not used certainly below zero
fahrenheit and sometimes even ten or twenty degrees fahrenheit. So
(06:44):
I'm in Milwaukee and I can even use one of
those batteries here.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
So you're saying, you know, a powersport vehicle an ATV,
a snowmobile, a wave runner that's gonna that can take
a lithium battery. But you're also saying you have lithium
technology available for cars, for my my camera, for my
pickup truck, for my whatever.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
We have a full line of lithium batteries. We have
six different power sports batteries, different sizes to cover over
ninety five percent of the power sports vehicles on the
on the road, everything from a little fifty cc scooter
up to a big big V twin touring bike, side
by sides and everything in between. We also have a
(07:25):
we have a couple of lithium batteries for marine and
RV applications, and we have an auto and truck lithium
starting battery as well.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
So if you make a group thirty five lithium battery
for my camera, right, I'm not saying you do. If
you do and I want to and I want to
put it in, is it a bolt in or do
I need to do something special? Do I have to
change something because my battery was originally a GM or
lead acid or whatever it might have been. Is there
is there a difference to the way it's going to charge.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Or work so the physical the physical size of the battery.
We don't actually make the battery that would a lithium
battery for your camera, right, Lithium automotive battery we make.
It's at H six. It's the most common size used
in vehicles in the US. It is a it's a
direct drop in for those drop in replacement for those vehicles.
(08:12):
And the reason that's possible is both lead acid batteries
and lithium batteries, the ideal charging voltage is very close
to fourteen point four volts. That's also the output the
power output level of the vehicle of vehicle charging systems.
So that's what enables you to be able to put
a lithium battery into a vehicle that originally had a
(08:35):
let acid battery without having to change anything with the
charging system or anything else.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
And that lithium battery gives me the advantage that I'll
have more reliable starting power in colder weather and more durability,
longer lasting, and.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
That and the because the lithium batteries they have, they
have basically they have a battery management system. It's basically
a computer inside, and that enables a bunch of really
cool features for our lithium automotive battery. I was talking
about that built in jumpstart function. So if you go
to the airport, leave your Domemite on and jump on
the plane, you come back a couple of days later
(09:16):
and your battery's dead. Our lithium automotive batteries have that
same Optimus CPR function. The cool thing about the automotive
batteries is you just need to All you have to
do is open up the Optima Bluetooth app on your
phone and it reactivates automatically turns the battery on. You
don't have to open the hood, you don't have to
tear up our you even start the battery vehicle up again.
(09:40):
Just open up the app from your driver's seat and
a way you go.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
You're making it way too easy, Darryl, Darryl, stay put
to take a pause on the side. I'm running any
in the card doctor. Let's let me come back and
want to talk a little bit about the power link
system and some of the other things you've got going
on over there at Optima Batteries. We're here with Daryl
Brockman from Optima Batteries. I'm un an any in the
card doctor. I'll be back right after this. M M M. Hey,
(10:30):
Look we came back Ron and Andy and the card
doc room here with Daryl Brockman. He is the in
product planning over there at Optimum Batteries Daryl. When we
pulled away, I wanted to jump in real quick too
about the power Link system. Can you talk about that
real quick?
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Sure? So? Powerlink it's a proprietary system with multiple patterns
for battery communication, control and charging. It's a it's accorded
dongle that's connected to the battery and it allows you
to know the battery status as multicolored LEDs. So for example,
the LED all flash green if the battery is fully charged,
it'll flash red if the battery needs to be charged.
(11:08):
There's a button on it. It allows you to shut
the battery down for off season storage or if you're
railing your side by side to the trails and you
want to don't want to have to worry about it
being powered up. You can just press the button for
three seconds. It puts the battery to sleep. I mentioned
Optimus pr previously are built in jumpstart function. It's using
(11:29):
that button on the power Link is how you'd wake
the battery up again. And then finally there's a plug
on the end that enables you to directly plug one
of Optimus withium enable chargers in Freezy maintenance, your battery
power sports vehicles and motorcycles, the battery is usually not
very convenient to get to. It can take a half
hour of wrenching to even get to the point where
(11:51):
you can see the battery. So this cord of dongle
allows you to basically like an extension cord so that
you can charge your battery conveniently without having to break
out you run.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
It's sort of like that remote access cord you see
sticking out of the grill of like a diesel plow
truck when they want to get to the block heater
or something. You're you're just making an access point easy
to get to.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Very similar, and we combine that charging capability with the
LEDs to the no battery status and the ability to
control the batteries.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Right and then it feeds is that what feeds back
to the app on the phone if we're doing that.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
So the power sports batteries they have the power link.
Our Group thirty one batteries that are used for boats
and RBS r QH six batteries that would be used
in a number of cars and trucks. Those all have
a Bluetooth app, and that Bluetooth app not only you know,
the first question is why do I need an app
(12:46):
for my battery. I don't care what my battery is doing.
Probably the most useful feature that it has that people
really have been, you know, really very interested in is
if that battery gets discharged down to thirty five percent,
it will automatically go to sleep. That they're optim of
CPR function. I was talking about just opening up by
(13:06):
You just have to open up the app, and by
doing that and connecting to the battery, it activates the
battery and wakes it back up again when that built
in jumpstart function has been has been activated. So you
don't even have to open up the hood of the vehicle.
You don't have to make physical contact with the you know,
dig up your trunk.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
I want to talk about safety certifications. Why are they
so important?
Speaker 2 (13:31):
The safety certifications? I mean, there's a lot of lithium
battery manufacturers and brands on the market. Agency and safety
certifications are one way to know that the battery has
undergone rigorous testing to ensure safe operation. And there's both
sell and battery level certifications. Optima has both not only
for the US standards, but for international standards as well.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
So you know, when people are using lithium and we
hear lithium in the news all the time, right, we
know optims optim has done the research and that's where
the safety certifications are so important. That we're dealing with.
We're dealing with the you know, the cream of the crop,
so to speak. You guys are rich that that we're
dealing with a good quality of lithium battery and technology
(14:14):
behind it.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
If Clarius is engineering team. Clarius is the world's largest
battery manufacturer. The engineering team that supported development of these
Optima batteries their normal their normal role is developing low
voltage energy storage systems for major audio automakers. Clarios is
the world's largest supplier of low voltage energy storage systems
(14:39):
for automakers. That same engineering team with that with their
you know, robust product knowledge and experience with the technology
and battery management system development, that's the team that supported
development of these Optima batteries and it's really what enabled
what enables us to have such high performance, such a
unique and proprietary feature set and again to have that
(15:02):
long list of agency and safety certifications.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Yep, Daryl, where can the listeners go get more information?
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Optima Batteries dot com or our tech support line at
eight eight eight eight Optima.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Perfect, Daryl, We'll get together again. I'm Ron an Any
and the car Doctor. We'll be back right after this.
What abody feel much?
Speaker 2 (15:27):
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