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It came up recently in local news. I wonder how they force that for earphones...
by cyrusmg 7mo ago
It came up recently in local news. I wonder how they force that for earphones...
- atoav 7mo agoI am not sure if thst is really a problem. Batteries of hearing aids have been replaceable for a while now. There appears to be a few reason to become excempt from the rules, e.g. medical reasons (if it is in your body safety is more crucial than removability of the battery). So who knows what Apples lawyers will do with this.
- cyrusmg 7mo agoI never looked into hearing aids - would the interchangeability affect weight ?
- padjo 7mo agoI have a pair of fairbuds that have user replaceable batteries.
- oulipo2 7mo agoThe regulation is mostly meant for light electric vehicles for now
- dguest 7mo agoWhere do you get this from? From what I could see it applied to everything from cars to laptops.
- cromka 7mo agoFrom the press release itself: "To that end, starting from 2025, the Regulation will gradually introduce declaration requirements, performance classes and maximum limits on the carbon footprint of electric vehicles, light means of transport (such as e-bikes and scooters) and rechargeable industrial batteries."
- dguest 7mo agoThat's another aspect of the regulation but as far as I can tell (from skimming the actual mandate, or the other summaries I found of it) it's doing both. The release itself says > Starting in 2027, consumers will be able to remove and replace the portable batteries in their electronic products at any time of the life cycle. Interesting that it's also introducing limits on EV carbon footprints, but that's not to the exclusion of mandating replaceable phone batteries.