3 Vital Ways A Lightweight Marine Battery Improves Your Product

Posted March 01, 2016

3 Vital Ways A Lightweight Marine Battery Improves Your ProductWhile most customers demand a boat that travels quickly and navigates easily, they may not be aware that a lightweight marine battery enhances their application’s performance. As a product engineer, you must choose your application’s battery with your customers’ end values in mind.

Rechargeable lithium-ion batteries are one-third the weight of lead acid alternatives. In addition to providing benefits such as higher capacity and more runtime between charging, lithium batteries offer many advantages out on the water due to their lighter weight. Choosing lithium technology to power your marine vessel improves product performance in the following three ways:

1. Boosts Fuel Efficiency

When you increase your product’s fuel efficiency, your customers save time because they don’t have to take as many trips to the fuel dock. They save on fuel costs, especially if they use their boat frequently. Additionally, your customers reduce their carbon footprint by decreasing emissions.

Your customers are probably going to carry gear and supplies on board their marine vessel. However, lures, tools and cases of beverages all add up in terms of extra pounds. One of the easiest ways to improve fuel efficiency is to reduce a boat’s weight. With a lightweight marine battery, customers don’t have to sacrifice as much of their gear to achieve greater fuel economy.

2. Increases Speed

Heavy lead acid batteries only slow your product down. Extra weight causes your boat to displace more water as it moves, which means it must use more energy to push through the water. As a result, your customers aren’t able to travel as fast on board their boat. Being lower in the water also increases drag and inhibits acceleration.

While heavier boats have more momentum, this benefit is usually only helpful under poor weather conditions. Plus, after your boat stops, it takes more energy to get back up to speed. It’s better to keep your boat as light as possible.

3. Reduces Draft

You’re able to reduce the distance between your boat’s lowest point and the surface of the water when you make the switch to lithium-ion technology. Boats with small drafts are able to navigate shallow waters, allowing your customers to access out-of-the-way ports or even take their boat right up to the beach.

While it’s useful to consult charts and observe water marks on surrounding structures, your customers may not always know how deep the water is if they’re navigating an area where the tide rolls in and out. It’s important to have a small draft when your customers travel in shallow waters so they avoid hitting underwater objects or getting stuck on sandbars.

Switching to marine lithium-ion batteries is a less time- and cost-intensive alternative to redesigning your product when you want to improve performance. You’re able to offer customers a new and improved boat simply by changing your power source.

As a result, your customers experience fewer difficulties traveling where they need to go and managing their boat’s needs, especially since lithium batteries are low maintenance. When they know they can depend on your company to provide them with high-quality, reliable products, customers will come back to you for future purchases.

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