An electricity producing system of lead plates and dilute sulphuric acid; used as a starter battery and as a traction battery in electric vehicles or as a source for lights because they are rechargable, inexpensive, and durable
a cell in an ordinary storage battery, in which electrodes are grids of lead containing an active material consisting of certain lead oxides that change composition during charging and discharging The electrodes are plates that are immersed in an electrolyte of diluted sulfuric acid