Abstract: An electric storage battery whose basic features are that it comprises four terminals electrically connected in pairs under the battery cover, which permits it to be used in any type of vehicle regardless of the position of its collectors, and the arrangement of two C-shaped handles pivotally connected at their ends to two vertical partition walls and capable of occupying two positions, (1) a vertical position in which they function as a handle and (2) a horizontal position in which they permit the batteries to be stacked while protecting the terminals from possible damage from the stacked weight and the shock or rubbing of one battery against the other.