Many years ago I had multiple florescent lighting in the old detached garage. Next home did the same with the garage lighting adding a shop gas heater as I did tinker much back then in the garage. Took a long time for the lighting to work in the cold winters.
I started to look at LED bright lighting for the garage about 10 years ago and never did see any which was not cost prohibitive.
Recently purchased two style of LED lighting which is reasonably priced and very bright.
@Mike I like your idea on the Leviton motion sensor. I have one outdoor PIR in the garage and it never did work really well.
(currently utilizing under drive sensors, second outdoor PIR and RFID tags to trigger lighting).
Might switch also to using the GDO door sensors / Garage door for one timed trigger in the future.
Current GDO opening trigger turns on all of the garage lighting plus the GDO lighting. I did this as in the 1980's a possum went in to the garage and it took about a week to get him/her out. That and it became mean when approached. Thinking I just left the garage door open for a day and it left.
Here I have over the years enjoy (relax) working (tinkering) on the automobiles in the garage. Also still prefer to wax my automobile about once a year. The daylight look in the garage helps me with this stuff.
Recently purchased one of these and impressed with it although it is still a bit more expensive than dual florescent lamps at $32 each. I did take it apart before installing it. I just has one strip of LED lamps in it and is sealed from the weather.
LLT LED Garage Vapor Proof Fixture 4ft 36W 5000K IP66 - Daylight
Here is an example of these installed in a large shop style garage.
Tinkering with another LED lamp which is a bit brighter and very easy to install on the ceiling. Much cheaper. These provide a daylight look in the garage. A bit too bright to look at though. Easy to mount and very thin. These are $12 each.
Not sure how long these will last though.
Duttek LED Ceiling Lights,120V 24W 48 LEDs 6500K