Battery Tesla or OPTIMA

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

I'm going to turn 230k miles on my 2018 model 3 tomorrow. The only time it has been to a service center is when the 12v battery died on a road trip. Other than that, I've put tires on it. I'm at about 21% degradation but everything still runs as it should. I'm hoping to get to 300k miles on the original battery.

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

Optima battery. They handle the cold much better.

I have 2014 Tesla 85 s that I bought a year and half ago . It had 95,000 miles on it. It now has 117,000 on it. Original battery. Still going strong.

My 2021 model 3 is also in for a battery swap. Furtunantely i still got warrenty. Only lasted 100k kilometers.

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.

Yes, my 2021 battery died mid 2024. No warnings, no abnormal behaviour. Luckily it was still under warranty and the towing and repairing were free.

DO NOT buy a red top Optima. They haven't been good or worth the price in like 15 yrs.

Those Optima Red, Yellow and Blue tops used to be the cat's ass 20 years ago, but quality has fallen off big time in recent years