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> If you standardized them, it'd be a race to the bottom and China would win. Is China not making most of the world’s batteries at this time? I don’t think thi
by ok_dad 2y ago
> If you standardized them, it'd be a race to the bottom and China would win.
Is China not making most of the world’s batteries at this time? I don’t think this is a reason not to standardize.
- kichik 2y agoYou can still charge $80 for the proprietary plastic shell.
- runjake 2y agoYes. Which is epoxied shut and requires you to virtually destroy the shell to get to the cells inside as I recently discovered trying to refurbish my Dewalt batteries.
- solardev 2y agoWell, it's not just the country of origin on its own, but the branding of different companies. When you have bare cells, anyone can make them, and within a few years it'll all just be Amazon Basics or Costco batteries inside everything. When you add a plastic enclosure around those cells, suddenly it's a Makita or Milwaukee or whatever brand battery that their manufacturer can tightly control. I'm not arguing against standardization, BTW (as a consumer I'd love to be able to pop my headlight 18650 cells into my laptop or power tool), just saying that it's extremely unlikely because the financial forces against it are way too strong. And in the land of the free, our regulations are anything but. No way industry would let this happen, and no way our government is strong enough to unilaterally force it through.
- dialup_sounds 2y agoAmazon and Costco would be a step up from what's in a lot of counterfeit tool batteries today.