Charging Car Battery On Concrete Floor

If it s acid spattered put it on somebody else s concrete floor or stick a board under it.

Charging car battery on concrete floor.

If a battery is clean you can safely put it on your concrete floor. The design of modern day batteries includes a hard plastic shell that eliminates the intake of moisture thus making the garage floor a great place to put your car battery. So here s the story. Encased in steel an edison cell battery placed directly on a concrete floor would discharge more quickly than normal.

A reader asked us to look into this myth because he was concerned about battery life in parking meters. Before we dwell into the details the myth has some historical basis. Apparently he is under the impression that putting a car battery on a concrete floor would drain it. Cement and concrete floors provide a fairly good barrier between the car battery and extreme temperature changes that could otherwise cause damage to the battery cells.

There may be leakage across the terminals of a top post battery but that would be slight. Naturally if a topic or concept is not very well understood people can fall prey to all sorts of rumors and myths that spread from generation to generation and the question of a car battery draining on a concrete floor is one of them. Even an acid spattered battery will not leak its charge into the earth.