On Sat, 08 Sep 2012 19:27:39 +0100, AJH
wrote:

Lithium must be worse than lead acid then, my Landrover still has the
battery it came out of the MOD auction with in ~1995 and still starts
plus it had regular use up till 4 years ago.

And if someone offered you an unused (and I don't mean dry-charged) LA
battery that was four years old would you pay any money for it?
I wouldn't.