In 1997, Exide NASCAR Select Batteries were introduced, which is the official battery of NASCAR. (Marketed worldwide under the name dryfit). The company Accumulatorenfabrik Sonnenschein had been founded in Berlin in 1910 by Theodor Sonnenschein, and had patented the gel-cell type of valve-regulated lead-acid battery in 1957. With this acquisition also came the rights to the German brands Sonnenschein and dryfit. In 1996, Exide acquired the French/Italian battery corporation CEAC, Clichy. Įxide became a publicly traded company in October 1993. (doing business as Exide Technologies) acquired General Battery Corporation and moved the company headquarters to Reading, Pennsylvania. In 1983 Inco sold their Exide Corporation unit to the First Chicago Investment Corporation and principals of the Spectrum Group. became Inco Electroenergy Corporation as the result of the first hostile takeover in the US. The production of this type of battery was subsequently discontinued in 1975. acquired the Edison Storage Battery Company, which had developed a practical nickel-iron battery in 1901. In 1967 The Electric Storage Battery Company was merged into ESB Incorporated. Nickel-iron batteries, originally developed in 1901 by Thomas Edison, manufactured between 19 under the "Exide" brand. The Electric Storage Battery Company entered the dry-cell battery industry in 1957 when it acquired the Ray-O-Vac Company, the then second-largest producer of dry-cell batteries in the US. Navy submarines and primary contractor for batteries used in the Mark 18 electric torpedo. ĭuring World War II, the Electric Storage Battery Company was a major supplier of batteries for U.S. In 1938, the Electric Storage Battery Company acquired the Giant Storage Battery Company, and expanded into battery chargers and testers.
In 1934 the Electric Storage Battery Company filed for the trademark Exide Ironclad and in 1935 their trademark was registered. In 1920 the Electric Storage Battery Company purchased 40 acres of land in Crescentville, Philadelphia Pennsylvania to build a new plant at the estimated initial cost of two million US dollars. When the United States entered World War I, Exide batteries were used to operate airplane radio sets and power radio stations. (Within 5 years, there was a substantial field of aftermarket brands in storage batteries and starters for automobiles, as evidenced by the advertisements in automotive trade journals of the era.) This project yielded the first car battery of the modern type. Kettering turned to the Electric Storage Battery Company for a suitable automotive battery to complement his new electric starter. ġ919 Willard Service Station for battery-powered automobiles and employees of the Washington Battery Co., 1623 L Street N.W., Washington, D.C.
This battery was the first to bear the name Exide, short for "Excellent Oxide". In 1900, the Electric Storage Battery Company developed a product of greater capacity and less weight for electric taxicabs. Isaac Rice, president of Electric Storage in 1899, was instrumental in founding the Electric Boat Company as a bailout of the Holland Torpedo Boat Company. Electric Storage remained a significant supplier of US Navy submarine batteries at least through World War II. In 1898, an Exide brand battery provided the submerged power for the USS Holland (SS-1), the first submarine commissioned in the US Navy. Gibbs asserted that this secured to the Electric Storage Battery Company the sole right to supply this country electric storage batteries of all the various types heretofore developed, as well as the protection of every decision thus far rendered by the federal courts in the interpretation of patents of this kind. Gibbs, president of the Electric Storage Battery Company, stated on the night of Sunday Decemthat the company had consummated the day before in New York the purchase of all patents and patent rights concerning the manufacture and use of electric storage batteries of the General Electric Company, the Edison company, the Thomson-Houston, the Brush, the Accumulator company, the Consolidated Electric Storage Company and the General Electric Launch Company. Advertisement for Electric Storage Battery Company 1897
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