6.3  Lead-Acid

• This type of battery is found in modern conventional cars and can be recharged about 30 times (charge cycles).
  
  
• When used in electric vehicles (EVs) they are known as deep-cycle batteries and can be recharged up to 800 times.
  
  
• When subjected to “fast-pulse charging” the recharge time reduces from several hours to about 15 minutes.
  
  
• Its main disadvantage is low energy/poor density.
  
  
• Electric vehicles (EV) that have used this type of battery include: Chrysler EPIC Van, Ford Ranger EV, GM EV1 (Gen 1), GM Pickup, Fiat Panda Elettra, Samsung SEV-IV, Volkswagen Golf City Stromer, Bombardier NEV, Corbin Sparrow, Solectria Force, AC Propulsion t-Zero (Gen 1), REVA, ZAP Zebra and Bertone Z.E.R.