Christian SeligNeed the EU to step in and standardize 18V power tool batteries
Johan Lindskogen@christianselig they already are! https://youtu.be/eKOvXigyrXA
Any Power Tool, One Battery: EU's Genius Plan
Alikhan@jlindsk @christianselig It is an April 1st joke, no?
Andrew Douglass
Mieszko Ślusarczyk@ardouglass @alikhanab @jlindsk @christianselig It seems like such an obvious solution (well, not regarding technicalities, but you know what I mean), especially after the USB-C move. A bit painful (and seemingly wasteful) at the start, but worth it (both environmentally, economically and user friendly) in the end.
@spitfire @alikhanab @jlindsk @christianselig at least people don’t really upgrade their tools and batteries on a yearly cycle.
@ardouglass @alikhanab @jlindsk @christianselig I had a worx lawnmower, and 2 batteries for it. It broke and I wa able to return it to Amazon. I have noe of the batteries left. I bought a Makita lawnmower. I bought an off-brand battery for it (the original ones are crazy expensive), but I can’t mow my lawn on one charge. I can’t use my worx battery, so I had to buy a new (yet another) one. (1/3)
As for not having to upgrade tools/batteries on a yearly cycle - I don’t upgrade my iPhone yearly - the closest I have been to that was after 2 years, and even then I passed my phone to my wife, she passed hers to my mom. Batteries degrade, especially if you use your power tools often (especially if you share them with another tool). that would be ok, if I could have one pool of batteries, instead of one per each manufacturer/ecosystem. (2/3)
They can be recycled, but the cost and user hostility of that should be removed by standardization. (3/3)
@spitfire sure, but the argument in favor of migrating all phones to USB-C was a bit easier with the usually shorter lifespan of the devices. Operating systems dropping support after 5 or 6 years max makes them basically bricks for most people.
Contrast that with a set of tools where I use a battery I got a couple months ago with a tool I’ve had since before Android was even commercially available.
I think it would be great if they were standardized, but there’s less pressure to do so.
@ardouglass iPhones are getting up to 7 years of mainstream support and even after that they sometimes get an out of band security fixes every now and then, so their battery goes bad well before then, but that’s not the point. (1/2)
Even if there is less pressure to do so, the lock-in for different tools manufacturers is a serious issue from the 3 perspectives I’ve listed, all of which we’re factor when EU forced Apple to go USB-C or drop the chargers from the boxes (this one may sound debatable, but if people buy new phones semi-frequently they do end up with too many charging bricks). (2/2)