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> If you're lucky they still make the battery, but it costs as much a whole new tool. Aren't most companies working on a standardized battery (at least within
by Pfhreak 8y ago
> If you're lucky they still make the battery, but it costs as much a whole new tool.
Aren't most companies working on a standardized battery (at least within their brand) so you can swap batteries between your drill, blower, trimmer, etc? It would seem that if that's the case, changing battery form factors would be a real bad idea.
- snarfy 8y ago(within their brand) That's the kicker. I have DeWalt, Makita, and Rigid brand electric tools. They all have different, incompatible (yet same voltage/amp) batteries and chargers, each costing as much as the tool. At least gas goes in any gas tool. I'd rather they be regulations on the amount of pollution (both air and noise) allowed.
- spankalee 8y agoI'm fine with regulation as long as zero is the amount of CO2 pollution allowed. We need to be in crisis mode now.
- rootusrootus 8y agoYep, they do. Within their own brand. Just means when they switch from 18V to 20V, and then to whatever the next big thing is, you have to switch all of your tools to the new standard.