UNIROSS BATTERIES LEAD THE WAY
FOR 4x4 EXPERT
Leading 4x4 expert Tim Skelton from SA Adventure
recently embarked on a 3 000km trip to Botswana
where he tested the Uniross rechargeable battery
products to see their effectiveness for outdoor
use. The Uniross batteries were charged using
the expedition Land Rover’s cigarette lighter
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“The batteries were charged each time in under
45 minutes and used every evening in an LED
headlamp. Single-use batteries usually last
3-4 hours and are then thrown away. But with the
Uniross batteries, the headlamp lasted all night
and the batteries could be charged the next day,
instead of throwing them away.”
“The reduced environmental impact is evident but
also the savings on battery costs,” says Skelton.
“I would have thrown away over R1 000 worth of
single-use batteries on this three-week trip alone.
But now the Uniross rechargeables can come
with me on my next trip with no harmful discarded
batteries entering our environment.
Based on the amount of batteries I use annually
on these trips and outdoor off-road events, the
savings could be as much as R3 000 to R4 000
annually.”
“Domestic batteries dumped in unsecured
landfills contaminate ground water,” says
Michael Rogers, MD of Uniross, the rechargeable
battery manufacturer.
“About 30 000 tons of domestic batteries, such
as penlight batteries, are discarded in unsecured
landfills annually in South Africa. Batteries need to
be disposed of carefully, however most are not.”
Uniross estimates that this represents about
50-million domestic batteries a year. The batteries
erode and leak chemicals such as nickel and
cadmium into the soil and underground water table.
The mercury contained in a single AAA nonrechargeable penlight battery can pollute 500 litres
of water or one cubic meter of land for 50 years.
On the other hand, because rechargeable
batteries can be re-used up to 500 times, a
single rechargeable battery can replace up to
500 discarded non-rechargeable batteries.
“The long-term contamination effects of dumping
hundreds of millions of batteries in the ground,
over a number of years, is hazardous to humans,
animals, fish life and the environment,” he says.
“Because rechargeable batteries are capable of
being recharged and re-used up to 500 times,
South Africans could reduce this enormous battery
pollution from 50-million to a fraction of this
number each year – an enormous benefit to our
environment.”
The all new AC1X34 was developed in
conjunction with car manufacturers to meet the
highest mobile air-conditioning system standards.
It is the first Robinair air-conditioning service
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R134a and *R1234yf systems.
* Requires the use of a conversion kit.
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