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A mate just put a flat pack 150ah lithium with a built-in 20amp dc/dc charger in it in his car.
Expensive at around $1400 but bloody worth it.
Atm I'm running a 105ah gel deep cycle with a 40amp dc/dc charger that is also a solar regulator and I keep a 300w solar blanket in the Ute.
It's actually small enough that I can use it as a windscreen sun shade and power it from inside the car.

The advantage of the lithium is 4 fold, 1) it charges much faster and an agm, 2) you can run it all the way down where as an agm starts to die if you take it below 50% more then a few times. 3) it lasts much much longer then an agm, they say 6 times, as long but that's optimistic.

If you don't want to fork out lithium money then do what I did and get a gel, the 105ah gel battery actually has more usable capacity then 170ah AGM because much like the lithium you can take it well below 50%, in the case of the gel batteries down to 10% safetly.
That means the bigger 170ah AGM only has 85ah of usable power, the 105ah gel has 94.5ah of usable energy.
It also sits between the agm and lithium in battery life and is only a bit dearer then the AGM and way cheaper then the lithium.
But both the gel and lithium can be mounted in any position unlike an agm.

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