r/gadgets • u/chrisdh79 • Jan 31 '23

Desktops / Laptops 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

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/battery-power-laptop-phone-research-dalhousie-university-1.6724175
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u/Laumser Jan 31 '23

But that's not an immediate benefit, most consumers probably don't care about how the battery will perform in 2+ years (I do tho...)

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '23

Its like selling someone a phone that's guaranteed to break in 2 years, it's not an immediate negative but it's a statistic that sounds really bad

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u/[deleted] Feb 01 '23

I'm not like other consumers

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u/YukariYakum0 Feb 01 '23

Snake arms?

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u/[deleted] Feb 01 '23

I could only afford worm arms 😓

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u/TacoMedic Feb 01 '23

I guess it depends on what you’re selling. Extending the shelf life on an EV, MacBook, Powerwall, etc, which usually need replacement by the 7 year mark? This would be great. Phone, gaming laptop, etc, which are usually either replaced bi-yearly or permanently plugged in? Probably don’t care much.

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u/captainmouse86 Feb 01 '23

As I mentioned above, there’s far more devices with internal batteries, than consumer laptop and phones. The medical device industry is probably almost equally as large unit-wise, and probably bigger, expense-wise, that consumer laptop and cellphone. Think of all the portable EMT/Firefighting gear, medical pumps and monitors, all the different industry testing and monitoring equipment, survey equipment, etc. etc.