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RV Lifestyle RV Podcast

Lead is Dead: Why Lithium RV batteries are the Best Choice

RV Lifestyle RV Podcast

Mike Wendland

Personal Journals, Leisure, Places & Travel, Society & Culture, Automotive

4.7624 Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Lithium RV batteries have been growing in popularity to the extent that they have pretty much now become the gold standard for RVers looking to maximize house battery power while boondocking and camping off-grid.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome everybody to RV podcast episode 385.

0:06.0

And this week we're going to talk about how lead is dead.

0:10.0

We're going to talk about why lithium is the new standard for RV batteries.

0:15.0

Welcome, fellow travelers. It's time for another episode of the RV podcast.

0:26.2

Answering your questions. Sharing tips. Suggesting great trips and off the beaten path adventures.

0:33.9

And always staying on top of the RV lifestyle news you need to know about with great interviews and inside industry information.

0:38.0

Here's your host. Award winning journalists, Mike and Jennifer Wendland.

0:41.8

Hi, everybody.

0:46.0

I'm Mike, and this is my lifelong traveling companion and my bride, Jennifer.

0:50.6

And here we are with episode 385 of the RV podcast.

0:53.0

I can't wait until we get to episode 400.

0:55.2

15 more weeks. It won't be long. It won't be long. I read something the other day that the average podcast ends after just

1:01.0

six episodes. So you tell me we're a little slow? Yes, we are a little slow. But it is a lot more work

1:09.7

than most people think, isn't it?

1:11.7

That it is.

1:12.5

It is.

1:13.2

Well, as we said at the top, we are going to talk about lead is dead.

1:17.8

Lead being lead acid batteries, the traditional AGM batteries that you have been seeing

1:24.3

as sort of the stock batteries for RVs for the last several years.

1:30.5

That's all changed.

1:31.9

And it's changed over the last four or five years when lithium began to be introduced into

1:38.5

the RV community, lithium batteries, lithium ion batteries.

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