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EU will require removable batteries from 2027 (www.consilium.europa.eu)
submitted 1 year ago by AccidentalLemming@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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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[–] Piers@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Probably yes. But fortunately changes like this tend to spread out everywhere else anyway as the EU is too big a market to stop selling in but usually the economics are such that making an EU compliant version of your product and a non-EU compliant one doesn't make sense. It's why lots of US politicians tend to scramble to implement similar laws (eg, the universal charging cable connectors) once they've been entirely nailed down in the EU (because functionally it often is going to happen in practise either way, so by quickly passing a similar law they can take credit when it does.)