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Glued-in, designed-to-be-non-replaceable batteries, when we all know that they'll start to degrade after a year or two of heavy use. We should have rejected it

Glued-in, designed-to-be-non-replaceable batteries, when we all know that they'll start to degrade after a year or two of heavy use. We should have rejected it in phones. We should certainly have rejected it in laptops. I don't have much hope for EVs. With the battery making up maybe half of the value of the vehicle, a top design priority should have been standardised 'battery modules' shared between as many vehicle models as possible, to allow for easy replacement (including swapping out just 1 of N modules after minor damage rather than writing the whole car off), upgrade, salvage, and recycling.

jamesgeck0 4y ago
There was a delightful feature in the discontinued Flip™ video cameras. The standard internal battery could be recharged over USB, but it could also be removed completely and replaced with standard AA batteries. The device remains usable even though the manufacturer went out of business years ago. Xbox controllers do something similar; I love being able to just swap them out from my box of rechargeable batteries without having to worry about if I left the device plugged in to charge recently.