American Made Lead Acid Batteries

C&D Technologies has made industrial batteries since 1906. Its products include Pure Lead Max and msEndur pure-lead AGM batteries, front-access telecom batteries, the Tel-HT high-temperature battery for hot telecom sites, Liberty 2-volt cells for UPS and switchgear, and a 6T AGM battery for military-style vehicles. Its customers are data centers, telecom networks, utilities and renewable energy systems. C&D bought Trojan Battery in 2018.

In the 1960s C&D worked with AT&T to develop the lead-calcium technology used in stationary batteries. On October 1, 2026, Stryten Energy completed its purchase of C&D and Trojan. The C&D and Trojan product names continue under Stryten.

Made in: Attica, IN (battery plant open since 1955). Headquarters is in Horsham, PA.

Imported: batteries from C&D plants in Reynosa, Mexico and Shanghai and Pizhou, China.

Source: C&D locations, 2026 · C&D history, 2026 · Stryten completes C&D Trojan purchase, 2026, checked 10/2026

Clarios is one of the world's largest makers of low-voltage batteries, at more than 150 million a year, and about one in three vehicles worldwide runs on one of its batteries. It makes flooded, EFB and AGM starting batteries for automakers and for aftermarket brands, including Optima, Varta, LTH, Heliar, MAC and Delkor. It was formerly Johnson Controls Power Solutions and was renamed Clarios in 2019.

Clarios has 16 US manufacturing plants and more than 5,500 US employees in 32 states. Its plants are supplied by a closed-loop network that collects used batteries and recovers nearly all of their materials. In 2025 it announced a $6 billion US plan: $2.5 billion for AGM and other advanced batteries, $1.9 billion to process critical minerals such as antimony and tin, $1 billion for new energy-storage technologies, and $600 million to modernize plants. Under the plan, Toledo begins making low-antimony starter batteries in 2026 and Oconee adds capacity for 30 million battery parts.

Made in: Toledo, OH and Oconee, SC, among its 16 US plants; headquarters in Glendale, WI.

Imported: Optima batteries, which are made only in Monterrey, Mexico, plus batteries from Clarios plants in Latin America, Europe and China.

Source: Trade & Industry Development, 2025 · Plant Services, 2025 · Optima, 2021 · Clarios, 2026, checked 10/2026

East Penn Manufacturing is a family-owned company that has made batteries since 1946 and has more than 10,500 employees. It is the second-largest maker of car and truck starting batteries in North America, and most of these are sold under store and parts-chain private labels. Under its own Deka name it makes automotive, marine, RV, powersports, golf cart, farm, floor-care and heavy-duty truck batteries. It also makes reserve-power AGM, gel, Deka Synergy and UltraBattery batteries for telecom and 5G sites, data centers, switchgear, rail signals and renewable energy.

East Penn runs the largest single-site lead battery factory in the world, a 520-acre campus in Lyon Station. It holds four automotive battery plants, a stationary battery plant, two oxide plants, an EPA-permitted lead smelter and refinery, two injection-molding plants and a recycling operation that takes in about 30,000 spent batteries a day. It is the only reserve-power battery maker in North America that uses Individual Plate Formation. A few miles away in Kutztown, its 250,000 sq ft plant makes primary wire, starter and trailer cable, booster cables and battery accessories, starting from copper rod.

Made in: Lyon Station, PA (batteries, from oxide and refined lead to finished batteries); Kutztown, PA (wire, cable and accessories); Corydon, IA (additional plant).

Source: East Penn facilities, 2026 · East Penn transportation, 2026 · East Penn reserve power, 2026 · East Penn wire & cable, 2026, checked 10/2026

ODYSSEY batteries are made by EnerSys, one of the world's largest industrial battery companies, and use AGM thin plate pure lead (TPPL) construction. The line includes Extreme Series and Performance Series batteries for cars, trucks, heavy equipment, marine and RV, plus powersports batteries and the NorthStar Pro Series, which joined ODYSSEY in 2024 after EnerSys folded in the NorthStar brand. The batteries are maintenance-free, handle extreme temperatures and deliver high cranking power. Military versions are also made.

EnerSys makes ODYSSEY batteries in five plants worldwide. Two are in Missouri. Warrensburg, an original Gates battery factory from 1983, has 627+ people and is a key part of EnerSys's worldwide TPPL production. Springfield has two plants with about 770 people.

Made in: Warrensburg, MO and Springfield, MO.

Imported: ODYSSEY batteries also made at EnerSys plants in Newport, Wales and Arras, France.

Source: ODYSSEY about, 2026 · EnerSys manufacturing locations, 2026 · EnerSys, 2024, checked 10/2026

Yuasa Battery, Inc. is the US arm of Japan's GS Yuasa, the second-largest lead-acid battery maker in the world. Yuasa is the largest supplier of original-equipment powersports batteries worldwide. Its batteries fit motorcycles, ATVs, side-by-sides, snowmobiles, personal watercraft and scooters, and range from conventional batteries to the AGM GYZ Series for V-twins, adventure bikes and utility vehicles.

Yuasa has made powersports batteries in the Reading, Pennsylvania area since 1979. It calls itself the largest American maker and distributor of powersports batteries and says it builds more powersports batteries in the US than any competing brand. Its plant and US headquarters are in Laureldale, just outside Reading.

Made in: Laureldale, PA (powersports battery production; "many," not all, Yuasa batteries are made there).

Bought in: other Yuasa batteries from GS Yuasa's plants abroad.

Source: Yuasa Manufactured in the US, 2026 · Who is Yuasa, 2026 · Rider Magazine, 2024, checked 10/2026