What makes Shorai Lithium Iron Phosphate batteries different from other batteries?
A. Shorai LFX batteries contain proprietary eXtreme-Rate Lithium Iron prismatic cells (chemistry LiFePO4). Shorai LFX batteries contain no poisonous lead, no acid, and do not create gasses during charge, as traditional Lead-Acid batteries do. Compared to lead-acid, Shorai LFX lithium are also extremely light, have much lower self-discharge, do not sulfate, and are environmentally friendly. While there are other companies now offering Lithium-Iron based powersports batteries, all except Shorai use cylindrical cells originally made for power tool applications. Such cells are inferior to Shorai Prismatic LFX, for several reasons. First, the cylindrical cells come only in one size, so that the possible shapes and sizes of the starter batteries they make are very limited. Because of this, it will be hard to fit the batteries into many applications. Shorai’s prismatic cells, on the other hand, are rectangular packages which can be freely designed and sized according to the requirements of th
