Battle Born Batteries
Reno, Nevada — LiFePO4 house banks from a public company, which means every number on this page arrives with a date attached.
Battle Born is the consumer brand of Dragonfly Energy Holdings (Nasdaq: DFLI), which designs and assembles its batteries in Reno, Nevada, and reported preliminary 2025 net sales of $58.6 million in March 2026. The flagship 100Ah 12V lists a 3,000-to-5,000-cycle life and carries a 10-year warranty. Because the company files publicly, this page can also tell you what a private brand never would: in March 2026 Dragonfly announced deep cost cuts, and in 2024 it licensed the Battle Born name to Stryten Energy for new retail markets.
- $58.6M2025 net sales, preliminary, reported March 16, 2026
- 10 yearsWarranty on the 100Ah 12V, per Battle Born
- $30MPotential value of the 2024 Stryten brand-licensing deal
What we'd reach for
- 100Ah 12V LiFePO4 (BB10012)The battery the brand was built on — Battle Born lists 3,000–5,000 cycles, an IP65 housing, and assembly in Reno.
- 100Ah 12V Smart LiFePO4The same format with connected monitoring — state of charge on a screen instead of a guess.
Most battery brands ask you to take their word for things. Battle Born belongs to a company that files quarterly.
The brand is the consumer face of Dragonfly Energy Holdings — Nasdaq: DFLI, headquartered in Reno, Nevada — and its flagship 100Ah 12V LiFePO4 is close to the reference drop-in lithium battery for van and RV house banks: “designed and assembled in Reno, Nevada,” a listed 3,000–5,000-cycle lifespan, an IP65 enclosure, and a 10-year warranty the company calls one of the longest in the industry. List price when we looked: $949, on sale at $799 — roughly triple the import shelf, which is the honest cost of a battery whose maker you can locate, call and sue.
What the public record shows
Because Dragonfly is public, the figures come dated. Preliminary full-year 2025 net sales: $58.6 million, against $50.6 million in 2024 — growth of about 16% — with “hundreds of thousands of reliable battery packs deployed in the field,” the company’s own phrase. Behind the brand sits a patented dry-electrode cell-manufacturing process that Dragonfly pitches as the path to domestic cell production; today’s Battle Borns are Reno-assembled packs, and the cell-origin question beyond that is not spelled out on the product page.
The licensing deal that split the name
On July 30, 2024, Dragonfly licensed the Battle Born brand to Stryten Energy in a deal worth up to $30 million — $5 million upfront, up to $25 million in royalties. Stryten takes Battle Born-branded lithium into military, automotive, marine, power sports, lawn & garden and golf retail; Dragonfly retains RV, off-grid, heavy-duty trucking, stationary storage, and oil and gas.
The buyer consequence is real: the same trusted name will appear on batteries made by two different companies in different channels. Check who manufactured the specific unit in your cart before you assign it Battle Born’s Reno reputation.
Where they fall down
The company is under visible strain. The same March 16, 2026 release that reported growth announced a cost realignment: 20% executive and board compensation cuts, a 20% payroll reduction, facility consolidation, and $8.9 million in targeted annual savings — and its boilerplate names maintaining the Nasdaq listing among the risk factors. A 10-year warranty is a promise about 2036; weigh it against a balance sheet you can actually read.
The brand license blurs the one thing a brand is for. See above — caveat emptor is now model-specific.
Cycle life is the manufacturer’s range. 3,000–5,000 is Battle Born’s published figure, not a third-party test.
You pay for the story. Triple the import price is defensible; it is still triple.
Where Battle Born fits
Van and RV house banks — the retained core of the business, and the battery most often dropped into Victron-managed systems on this roster’s logic.
Off-grid banks where support matters more than sticker price.
Not for: starting batteries, price-first builds — see Dakota Lithium for a mid-price path — or buyers who won’t check which company made their “Battle Born.”
Why we rate them
Dated figures. This page’s numbers carry dates because the company must publish them. On this shelf, that is rare enough to be a feature.
A US assembly operation with an address. Reno is on the label and on the filings.
The warranty is long and the entity behind it is inspectable — for better and, right now, for worse. We tell you both.
When the house bank has to come with a paper trail, we reach for Battle Born.