New EU legislation can bring back user-replaceable batteries

20 December 2022
The provisional agreement covers everything from phones, through electric scooters to EV batteries and will require recycling and free collection of old batteries.

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  • Anonymous
  • YUU
  • 20 Dec 2022

This is the only EU laws that I fully agree and support. Please make it just 1 year and half instead of 3 and half years.

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    • kaki
    • XQh
    • 20 Dec 2022

    Letssss goooo

      next: implement removable batteries for laptops

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        • Anonymous
        • Lk5
        • 20 Dec 2022

        Based globalists (for once)

          Fast charging degrades battery so fast and no battery replacement given. Then we are forced to buy the phone :(

            I love what EU is doing, this is the right way to go.

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              • Anonymous
              • 3SI
              • 20 Dec 2022

              Anonymous, 20 Dec 2022Oh my god please, this is my biggest complaint with modern ... moreAdditional note here: The XCover 6 Pro design is pretty much perfect. With IP68, a back separate from the camera so that removing the back won't get dust beneath the lens, and a battery that's easy to put in and out.
              The iPhone 14 already uses a design that can be accessed from both the front and the back. It would be nice if the back, for example, was held in place by magnets like the screen on the unibody iMacs, and then could be removed with a (strong) suction cup. They could even use this as an opportunity to sell their own customizable backs in different colors (maybe even patterns) for their usual horrendous prices and thus make a profit off of it.

                love the law

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                  • Trooper
                  • mE0
                  • 20 Dec 2022

                  Yay!, and not a moment too soon. Although I (myself) still have at least 8 mobiles that have replaceable batteries. Bringing the option to modern mobiles (apart from specialist units) would be one of the best things to happen to the sector in quite some time. Bring it on!...

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                    • Anonymous
                    • 3SI
                    • 20 Dec 2022

                    Oh my god please, this is my biggest complaint with modern day smartphones. I stopped using my old iPhone because it was not worthwhile to replace the battery for €69 instead of putting that towards a new phone. With user replaceable batteries, I could have just bought a new one for €20 and use that.
                    For someone I know, after buying a new phone, they continued to sometimes use their old phone, but then its battery expanded and we brought it in for recycling, wasting an otherwise perfect condition phone.

                      Now this is what I've been waiting for, don't care if it makes phone bit thicker

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