OHM Car Battery

NYSpeed Automotive
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Not a bad idea, makes you wonder why no one has done the “no jump-starting” thing yet:

Never needs jump-starting
Ohm is smart enough to keep you from accidentally draining your battery if you forget to turn your lights off. It will automatically turn itself off when it gets critically low, and then switch itself back on when you go to start your car. No more getting stranded with a dead battery.
Works on the coldest days
Unlike lead-acid or lithium-ion batteries, Ohm loves the cold. Have confidence your car will start no matter what.
Long lasting
Lead-acid batteries last three years on average. Ohm lasts more than twice that.
Ultra lightweight
Six pounds. That’s how much Ohm weighs. It’s the easiest, most affordable way to instantly drop 30 pounds or more from your curb weight by switching from a lead-acid battery.
Kind to Mother Nature
Conventional car batteries contain dangerous acid and are responsible for over 24 million pounds of environmental lead contamination each year. Ohm has no lead, no acid, and is safe for the environment.

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Im sick of throwing money at these kickstarter style things that never happen :slight_smile:

Cool concept I will wait for production

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Oh I agree. If it fails, some large company like Interstate might just take the idea and come to market with it anyway.

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I’m not going to post The Oatmeal’s Kickstarter Mart sketch again, but yeah.

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The biggest issue is while people can invent cool things they have 0 understanding of how to scale production and actually run a business.

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Probably because they don’t want the liability when it fails and then won’t allow the car to start. In the US someone will sue because they left their headlights on, the battery disabled itself to keep from going dead, then wouldn’t re-enable itself when they tried to start the car.

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might be better off with an inline circuit breaker type thing that trips off the negative side when it gets to a certain level. Then you could just go into the engine bay and flip it back and it would be mostly universal since all cars only use 2 kinds of terminals.

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nevermind, already exists: http://www.amazon.com/Priority-12-Volt-Pro-SP-PriorityStart-Automatic-Protector/dp/B0030A10V0

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^^ I was just going to say that it exists and you dont even have to manually reset it. I had to buy one once for a car that had an impossible to locate ground issue.

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^^ Well that’s cool. And $100 for never having a dead battery? I might want one for my truck, but I’d like to see how it would effect the security system.

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Affect

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I could have used this at work the last few days. thankfully @IanK was there to save the day in the champagne dragon

I don’t sleep much these days :ham:

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many years ago when i was a young lad of 16 I bought a DieHard Security battery that did that.
the Battery had a Fob that you would “lock” when you left the car, and it would not allow it to drop low or for the car to start untill you disarmed it. I had it 1 year and raved about it then they stopped production :frowning:

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