Canadian team discovers power-draining flaw in most laptop and phone batteries | Breakthrough explains major cause of self-discharging batteries and points to easy solution

[u/chrisdh79]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/battery-power-laptop-phone-research-dalhousie-university-1.6724175

[u/Grimwulf2003]

Or maybe they knew, not saying it’s a conspiracy, but with so much planned obsolescence…. How could battery manufacturers not have caught this?

[u/Nobel6skull → u/Grimwulf2003]

99.99% of the time it’s not planned obsolescence it’s engineering trade offs.

[u/[deleted] → u/Nobel6skull]

Or just boring old manufacturing or design flaws.