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Respected magazine Auto Express gave out its annual awards recently, featuring products ranging from screenwash to tyres, top-boxes and GPS navigation systems. CTEK’s Multi XS3600 model won the best battery charger category but, things got even better for CTEK; the range as a whole was selected to be “Product of the Year” award. This is what the magazine said:

“Innovation has always been at the heart of the premier prize in our Product Awards, and the CTEK range of smart battery chargers are groundbreakers.  When the units arrived from Sweden, they spelt the beginning of the end for the big, boxy units we had relied on for decades.  By comparison they were tiny, barely bigger than your hand, and many found them hard to take seriously.  How could something that small be better than the traditional large box of tricks?  Plug one in you soon discover it can – and that these little marvels can revive flattened batteries considered beyond hope.

CTEK was the first specialist to bring smart chargers to motorists in big numbers, offering a compact device that could not only rescue batteries from low levels conventional rivals could not touch, but also condition and maintain them once revived.  Don’t look for big charging numbers on the packs, as the key to this new generation is how the current is delivered – precisely matching the power to what the battery can take to avoid gassing and long-term damage. This same precision also pays off when maintiaining power packs on little-used cars such as classics, constantly varying the current to keep the battery healthy and ready for use.

While CTEK chargers have been around for a few years, new pricing makes them a realistic prospect for even more drivers.  The latest XS4003 moves the technology on even further: it can rescue long-dead power packs through an innovative eight-stage process monitored via a series of lights.  Also incorporating the long-running, test-winning XS 3600, the range easily merits our Product of the Year Award.”