I have been an apartment manager for over 30 years, and we hate our old lead-acid batteries. The maintenance of keeping the terminals clean, going out to get distal water, and we only get up to four years on our lead-acid batteries.
We replaced the six lead acid batteries with two new Lithium batteries from BigBattery.com, and it has been three months with no problems. It only costs $400 more than lead-acid batteries. We expect to get that money back from a lower energy bill within a year. It was an easy conversion. BigBattery.com was the lowest price I could find on the internet.
We are now switching the carts in our other two complexes to these batteries.