Duracell Car batteries

Spoke to another retailer
Turns out they are probably rebranded Lion batteries
CJ

So many things are getting cross branded these days.

Nappy san, and preen are being cross branded with the "vanish" brand...the parent company owns all those brands.

P.R.Malory owned the name Duracel......Malory made many things, including a variety of battery types, but in this country we saw very little but their "duracel" alkaline batteries, their sonalert beepers and a limited range of "Malory" ignition coils for Us derived vehiles.
Some timeago the Malory company was renamed "duracel".....Procter and Gamble the owners of Gellette, now own Duracell

I would not be impressed with a company slapping and drycell battery name on a lead acid battery that has no technical connection......it is synical marketing and nothing more.....probably technically correct as that is now the company bame.

Lots of people try to say their batteries compare with "Trojan".....in a wet cell deep cycle battery you have to go a long way to find another battery that comes close to a Trojan.

In the golf buggy market....a big user of wet cell deep cycle batteries.....there is no doubt that Trojan is by far best.

There are all sorts of figures that can be slashed about concerning batteries......those figures are no indication of quality or value for money.

You need to look at a battery maker that has a reputation for making the type of battery you are interested in...not a borrowed reputation form a brand that has nothing to do with the battery type is has been slapped on.


cheers

CJ,
here is a bit more info on the manufacturer.

LINK

Beware of Duracell fakes.

Two AA Duracell batteries leaked and ruined my voice recorder and Duracell didn't want to know anything about it despite their warranty about replacement if their batteries damage the device. They talked about parallel importers then stopped communicating.

Hi everyone, just let me add some substance to this coffee table talk.

The thing is, Duracell is lacking know how in the fields of car batteries, let alone modern stop start batteries.

And with this, they're not alone in the US which is trailing automotive innovations coming out of Europe.

So what Duracell and also East Penn/Deka did is, they teamed up with the mob who've got what it takes to make these advanced products.
http://www.duracell-automotive.com/en/current/news/article/article/get-started-with-duracell-and-banner.html
http://www.duracell-automotive.com/en/products/product-overview/extreme.html

So it's Austrian based company Banner.
Their product range includes enhanced flooded type designs, and AGM for both cranking power and good cyclic performance.

Amazingly you can find some of their factory labelled product right here in Australia.


cheers, Peter

A word of warning if you wake up one morning an find a large pink rabbit standing next to your car just pop the bonnet and walk away slowly.