Battery OPTIMA or OEM Volvo

On my 2014 Leaf SV I put in an Optima Yellowtop and it lasted over 7 years.

I have a 10 year old yellow top Optima (not even the nicest thing out there) that starts a 440 (often 9 months between starts) every time. I haven't even put a tender on it in the last 5 years.

Optima yellow top. It's around $300 ish. The last one was replaced after a decade. The new one I have will probably be the last one.

Yellow top , my recommendation ; I do carry multiple lights on the taco .size 35

I ran a yellow top Optima in my Civic from 2009 up till this year. A hell of a run!

My 3 years old XC60 battery has been diagnosed as bad 55% last 2 weeks ago, I said to them keep it as I feel they are still good and road worthy. Gonna do a snapshot again at another 6 months to evaluate.

Optima seems to be the only brand of cylindrical Pb batteries for automotive use... pretty much every other automotive Pb battery is prismatic.

That's the first I've seen one fail this way.

From my experiance with the optimal batteries you are better off with a Walmart battery and save money. I tried the optimal 2x. Both failed within a year. They were warranties but the replacements didn't last much longer.

Red Tops are sh* and have been for 10+ yrs at this point. \nThe last 3 or 4 I had didn't last 2yrs and I got warranty replacements, which also lasted 2yrs. For $300+ they are sh*.

One day my alternator went and killed the optima battery