Do you miss phones with replaceable batteries? By 2027, you won’t anymore because, by law, almost every smartphone will have them again.
Do you miss phones with replaceable batteries? By 2027, you won’t anymore because, by law, almost every smartphone will have them again.
Only EU though
It’s only the EU bit these kind of law tend to impact products all around the world.
Maintaining different products for different markets is difficult and expensive. Making the battery replaceable is not very hard to do so it’s easier to produce one kind of product with replaceable battery for the whole world rather than maintaining two different production lines.
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Maybe. I know it’s a different scale but in the EU there’s a standard connector for all electric cars (CCS Type 2 Combo) and that’s become the defacto standard for most cars in most countries, but Tesla maintains their own connector in non-EU territories. I wouldn’t put it past Apple is all I’m saying: controlling the charge port is very important to companies that profit from tight vertical integration.
At least Tesla eventually allowed other car companies to use their connector.
True, but we don’t know how many strings are attached to that. The Tesla connector is going to be made ‘open source’, but that doesn’t mean anything in terms of it being free to use or permissable. I hope it’s being done in good faith but The Dipshit has something of a record to the contrary…
I’m pretty sure it is free to use. Check this out: https://www.notebookcheck.net/Tesla-open-sources-its-connector-to-take-on-CCS-with-half-the-size-twice-the-power-North-American-Charging-Standard.668196.0.html