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'''Exide Technologies''' is the world's second-largest producer of automotive [[lead-acid battery|lead acid batteries]] for automotive and industrial applications. |
'''Exide Technologies''' is the world's second-largest producer of automotive [[lead-acid battery|lead acid batteries]] 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. |
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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. |
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Exide bought out the dry battery business of a company called [[Brittania Batteries]] Ltd.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.competition-commission.org.uk/rep_pub/reports/1960_1969/fulltext/025c04.pdf |title=Chapter 4. The Chloride Electrical Storage Company Limited |accessdate=2007-05-11 |publisher=UK Competition Commission}}</ref> |
Exide bought out the dry battery business of a company called [[Brittania Batteries]] Ltd.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.competition-commission.org.uk/rep_pub/reports/1960_1969/fulltext/025c04.pdf |title=Chapter 4. The Chloride Electrical Storage Company Limited |accessdate=2007-05-11 |publisher=UK Competition Commission}}</ref> |
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Revision as of 15:45, 5 February 2009
Exide Technologies is the world's second-largest producer of automotive lead acid batteries 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.[1]
During World War II, Exide (then Electric Storage Battery Company) was a major supplier of batteries for U.S. Navy submarines and primary contractor for batteries used in the Mark 18 electric torpedo.[2]
It is a sponsor of the Cornell Automotive X-Prize Team.[3]
Exide Technologies has signed an agreement to be to be the sole lead-acid battery supplier for the REVA (Revolutionary Electric Vehicle Alternative) car-making project in Bangalore, India. [4]
External links
- http://www.exide.com/
- Exide Champion.
- A report from the 1970s that mentions Exide, Chloride and Dryex batteries.
References
- ^ "Chapter 4. The Chloride Electrical Storage Company Limited" (PDF). UK Competition Commission. Retrieved 2007-05-11.
- ^ Blair, Clay, Jr. Silent Victory (New York: Bantam, 1976), p.280.
- ^ Cornell automotive list of sponsors
- ^ Exide Technologies to Supply Batteries to REVA Electric Vehicle Project; Company Signs Agreement as Sole Battery Supplier
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