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Europe is currently still enjoying fall temperatures, but winter is approaching apace. This is a challenging time for batteries in trucks – with increased rates of flat batteries caused by sub-zero temperatures. To avoid this, Clarios, the global market leader in advanced energy storage solutions, developed the VARTA ProMotive AGM in collaboration with the leading truck manufacturers.

Europe is currently still enjoying fall temperatures, but winter is approaching apace. This is a challenging time for batteries in trucks – with increased rates of flat batteries caused by sub-zero temperatures. To avoid this, Clarios, the global market leader in advanced energy storage solutions, developed the VARTA ProMotive AGM in collaboration with the leading truck manufacturers. A special technology makes this truck battery more reliable and more durable than conventional batteries.

Trucking company owner Fabio Bilibio from Treviso, Italy is proud of his modern, well equipped trucks. The comfort features help him retain drivers for his company and recruit new ones despite a general shortage of drivers. It was just frustrating that the vehicles with the batteries fitted as standard often no longer started again after the mandatory rest breaks. “Total failures after just a few months were nothing unusual,” he reports . The consequence of that was unnecessary downtime and correspondingly high costs – until he fitted his trucks with the new VARTA ProMotive AGM.“

Already today, more than 90 percent of all new vehicles are equipped with fuel-saving start-stop technology. Market trends show that the start-stop technology is to be the decisive technology both on Original Equipment as well as the Aftermarket. Clarios, the world's largest battery manufacturer, plays an important role here: 80 percent of new start-stop vehicles are equipped with an AGM or EFB battery from Clarios.