{"id":11726,"date":"2025-09-14T22:55:36","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T03:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=11726"},"modified":"2025-09-24T17:03:34","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T22:03:34","slug":"polaris-ranger-lithium-battery-conversion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=11726","title":{"rendered":"Polaris Ranger Lithium Battery Conversion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We were able to revive three of the eight batteries that came with the Ranger, but we need four to move. So we&#8217;ve removed all of the lead acid batteries &amp; cleaned up the trays. Battery acid isn&#8217;t great for a steel plate &#8212; baking soda water to neutralize it, then a scrub.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_20250914_181045.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11727\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_20250914_181045.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_20250914_181045.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_20250914_181045-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_20250914_181045-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_20250914_181045-750x563.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_20250914_181045-500x375.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As a proof of concept, we&#8217;ve got the 48v lithium battery in the bed and will temporarily wire it into the vehicle. It&#8217;s wild that the one orange battery has about as much usable power as four of the red ones. Weighs about the same, takes up slightly more space but not <em>that<\/em> much.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_20250914_181109.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11728\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_20250914_181109.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_20250914_181109.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_20250914_181109-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_20250914_181109-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_20250914_181109-750x563.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_20250914_181109-500x375.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were able to revive three of the eight batteries that came with the Ranger, but we need four to move. So we&#8217;ve removed all of the lead acid batteries &amp; cleaned up the trays. Battery acid isn&#8217;t great for a steel plate &#8212; baking soda water to neutralize it, then a scrub. As a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2137],"tags":[2134,2135],"class_list":["post-11726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-polaris-ranger-ev","tag-polaris-ranger","tag-polaris-ranger-ev"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11726"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11729,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11726\/revisions\/11729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}