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EU will require removable batteries from 2027 (www.consilium.europa.eu)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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It had been in the works for a while, but now it has formally been adopted. From the article:

The regulation provides that by 2027 portable batteries incorporated into appliances should be removable and replaceable by the end-user, leaving sufficient time for operators to adapt the design of their products to this requirement.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Article 38:

A portable battery should be considered to be removable by the end-user when it can be removed with the use of commercially available tools and without requiring the use of specialised tools, unless they are provided free of charge, or proprietary tools, thermal energy or solvents to disassemble it.

https://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/PE-2-2023-INIT/en/pdf

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

without requiring the use of specialised tools, unless they are provided free of charge

Does that mean manufacturers will be able to get away with shit like this?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Did they ship it free of charge? If so, I guess yes then

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Also, some very specialized tools are commercially available. In fact, i'm not sure what kind of tool is so special that you can't buy it at all, outside of science and advanced measurements and such.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Basically every tool for repairing an iPhone (especially to fix the part serialization)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Apple tools require thermal energy.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Samsung provide me thermal energy pls