About us

Welcome to Lithium Batteries Australia and LiFeTech Lithium Energy

LiFeTech manufacture and supply the highest quality LiFePO4 batteries, chargers and related accessories available today. Whether for a car, boat or bike we can supply the right battery for your application.

Lithium Batteries Australia is a professional yet friendly company with bases in Sydney and Brisbane, Australia which provides personalised service to all its valued customers. We work in conjunction with a variety of partner companies, contractors and associates, each company being highly specialised in the particular service they provide or quality of products they manufacture which are powered by LiFeTech battery products. LiFeTech is one of the world's leading manufacturer's of the highest quality Lithium Iron Phosphate (LiFePO4) battery products and accessories for the electric vehicle and standby power energy markets. The LiFeTech product range includes cells, batteries, chargers and voltage management systems featuring advanced battery monitoring and diagnostics capabilities.

LiFeTech are proud to be one of only a handful of LiFePO4 battery manufacturers who use genuine Phostech cathode powder in the manufacture of their cells.

Today there are many manufacturers and suppliers of LiFePO4 batteries (predominantly from China). The vast majority of batteries manufactured by these companies are of dubious quality which is reflected in the short warranty period offered by the manufacturer. When a battery fails after a relatively short period in service the customer is left feeling very dissatisfied and becomes wary of purchasing LiFePO4 batteries from other companies in the future.

The LiFePO4 battery market is no different to any other. The consumer only gets what they pay for. Quality (and the reliability brought about due to this higher quality) costs more to manufacture. For instance when purchasing a new car, a highly precision engineered motorcar such as a BMW or Mercedes Benz will cost considerably more than a locally made car. The battery market is no different. This is why a premium performance battery such as those manufactured by LiFeTech can cost two or three times the initial purchase price of an inferior battery. The battery consumer believes they are getting a bargain when they purchase a cheap battery only to become frustrated by the lack of expected performance or short cycle life. By purchasing a LiFeTech battery you are making an investment in the future, taking into account a LiFeTech battery pack with an expected life of between 3000-8000 cycles (depending on the application) will over time work out the more economical choice compared to an inferior LifePO4 battery with a life of only 1000 cycles.

Tests performed in the USA using a motor load powered by a quality LiFePO4 battery show the 'cost of ownership' of the LiFePO4 battery works out to be approximately 70% that of the cost of using lead acid batteries for the same application spread over the life of the battery. This does not take into account the maintenance and replacement costs associated with replacing several lead acid batteries or two or more poor quality LiFePO4 batteries in the same time period of the life of a single quality LiFePO4 battery.

LiFeTech cater to the high end / premium performance market and thus due to the much higher quality and stringent QC control standards imposed during manufacture our battery products are more expensive (initially) than the cheaper Chinese made counterparts. The LiFeTech warranty on our factory battery packs is a minimum of 3 years/3000 cycles. In certain approved applications Lithium Batteries Australia will extend this warranty to 5 years.

It says a great deal about the confidence the Chinese battery manufacturer's have in their own products since they rarely if ever are willing to offer a warranty of more than 12 months. If a manufacturer is not willing to back the quality of their products with a lengthy warranty period would you feel comfortable spending a considerable sum of money on batteries if only after 12 months you were to have cell failures with no support from the battery manufacturer?

LiFeTech can provide the longest warranty in the industry on its batteries when you consider only the highest A-grade cathode cell powder is used in the manufacture of our cells. This cell material is manufactured in Canada / Germany while the poorer quality cells (which come with little or no warranty) are manufactured in China.

LiFeTech Approvals and Certifications

LiFeTech batteries and cells are manufactured under the most stringent standards of quality control which is why they provide superior performance and longevity when compared to their cheaper counterparts. LiFeTech products are manufactured in a factory holding the following certifications-

ISO 9001

ISO 14001

ISO/TS 1649

LiFeTech LiFePO4 cells conform to the following internationally recognised standards

UL MH45837

RoHS 3 2002/95/EC

Lithium Batteries Australia is a major worldwide distributor for the LiFeTech product range. We are a special projects LiFeTech distributor and we not only supply the standard battery products range but provide specialist customer application solutions often using the individual battery pack components which are available to us and not normally available to end user customers. In addition to supplying the Australian market, LBA also supplies LiFeTech products throughout the world and has many satisfied customers in several countries including Australia, USA, UK (England & Ireland), Canada, Germany, Austria, Norway, France and Poland.

Lithium Batteries Australia provides the following products and services-

  1. Battery consultancy service to provide professional advice regarding the most suitable battery for any given electric vehicle or standby power project. Please note that when a customer purchases BMI batteries for their project, all professional consultancy for their project right from the early design stage through to completion of the finished product is provided free of charge.
  2. Battery installation, testing and maintenance service. This includes battery load testing and impedance matching of cells for high performance applications. These "matched cells" are typically used for racing applications.
  3. Custom manufacture of batteries in unusual/irregular shapes and sizes for specialised applications.
    We manufacture specialised battery packs from BMI 40138F1 cells (which have threaded screw terminals) as well as packs which use the much smaller 18650 and 26650 size cells which are joined using capacitor discharge (CD) battery tab spot welding.
    We do not recommend soldering directly to cells due to heat damage which can occur if a cell is overheated.
    We can manufacture a battery in almost any voltage and battery capacity from 1.1Ah to more than 200Ah.
  4. Supply of very high discharge LiFePO4 cells with peak discharge rating of up to 60C.

There are many companies these days who will sell you a LiFePO4 battery. LBA/LiFeTech is different in that we will not "sell" you a battery. This is why we do not have a price list on our website since prices can vary substantially depending on quantity purchased. It should be noted that although we provide the same level of friendly professional service to all of our valued customers (no matter if you are an individual wanting to purchase only a few cells for an e-bike project, or are a large manufacturer requiring several thousands of batteries) the price quoted for only a dozen cells will not be the same price we quote for ten thousand cells.

We differ from our main competitors who sell similar products of similar quality in that LBA is an "engineering solutions oriented" company whereas our competitors are primarily "sales focussed".

We work closely with our clients to provide professional advice and suggestions with their projects from the initial design phase right through to completion.

Our mission in providing honest, truthful and accurate information.

Our competitors are happy to sell you a LiFePO4 battery but if you require technical advice or after sales engineering support once you have made your purchase often you are on your own. We have customers who have purchased batteries or battery products elsewhere only to become very dissatisfied with the support they received after they have made their purchase. In some cases these customers have been given very bad or even misleading information. In one particular case a seller of e-bike battery packs has been selling batteries without any sort of BMS. We provide the customer with accurate, factual technical advice which they can clearly understand so that they can achieve the best performance and longest life from their battery investment. When you have parted with several hundred (in some cases thousands) of your hard earned dollars the last thing you want is for your battery to fail prematurely due to bad advice!

All professional advice and information is provided by a qualified electrical engineer from Lithium Batteries Australia directly, from LiFeTech factory engineers or from our technical associates (as appropriate). Lithium Batteries Australia holds an electrical contractors licence and has extensive experience in industrial electrical installations. When solar power was in its infancy back in 1994 we were one of the first to complete the accreditation course for designers and installers of remote area power supply systems (RAPSS) held at the University of NSW (who were the world leaders in photovoltaic reasearch and development at the time). We work with a network of partner companies, each of which is extremely experienced in their own fields of expertise.

We have several years experience in the battery and critical power protection industries and have been responsible for the installation, commissioning, testing and ongoing maintenance of literally thousands of batteries of differing voltages, capacities and chemical makeup for such well known companies as IBM, Apple Computer, General Electric, McDonalds, Esso-Exxon Oil, BHP (to name a few) as well as many major hospitals and government departments including the Australian Tax Office and Australian Defence Industries.

It is this extensive experience which gives the customer piece of mind when making a battery purchase from Lithium Batteries Australia. We are the LiFePO4 battery professionals!

In addition to the high quality battery products we manufacture and supply we hope you find our website to be a useful resource with the information we provide. Please feel free to get back to us with any comments about any of the products we provide or if there are any battery products you find difficult to source and would like us to stock. In the coming months we will be adding several exiting products to our range which are powered by our batteries. One example is the world's fastest production e-bike. This e-bike is custom designed, engineered and manufactured in Austria from the highest materials and is powered by a BMI battery pack. During testing with a 36V BMI battery speeds of up to 97kph have been attained though the production models with be governed to 60kph so such a high speed will not be reached (this is a powered bicycle and not a motorcycle).

What sets us apart from our competition is that not only do we sell the very highest quality LiFePO4 cells, chargers and battery products but we listen to our customers.

So don't forget when you are looking to purchase a quality LiFePO4 battery you can't go past LiFeTech for performance, quality and reliability!!