Battery replacement must be 'easily' achieved by consumers

Re:Battery replacement must be 'easily' achieved by consumer... by atoav on Friday December 23, 2022 @04:15AM (#34103818)

If your battery is easily replaceable there might be a market for it. This is a classical hen-egg problem and to first force batteries to be replaceable is a good start.

(This post has been written on a modern smart phone with a replaceable battery).

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Re:Battery replacement must be 'easily' achieved by consumer... by ChuckNorris89 on Friday December 23, 2022 @10:49AM (#34107058)

>If your battery is easily replaceable there might be a market for it.

There already is a market for every phone battery ever made, even though they're not easily removable. The problem is they're mostly fakes or used parts masquerading as new after the scammers have reset their chips. That's the issue that this EU law won't fix.

If we could buy the parts directly from the manufacturers supply chain (with the added cost) we'd all be saved.

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Re:Battery replacement must be 'easily' achieved by consumer... by atoav on Friday December 23, 2022 @11:59AM (#34108034)

Yeah, I replaced batteries in devices where replacing the battery meant removing the (glued in) display and the (also glued in) battery more than once before. That is just not something regular people can do.

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