The European Parliament approved; Replaceable batteries are making their way back into phones
One of the old features in the design of mobile phones is apparently going to return to this market. The European Union Parliament recently voted in favor of a new law that will revolutionize the entire battery life cycle, giving users access to phones with easily replaceable batteries again.
The new law voted by the European Parliament includes New provisions is that one of them is mandatory Easy replaceability of the battery It refers to consumer products such as smartphones. The association says that easy interchangeability means that battery replacement does not need to be done No tools do not have Therefore, we should probably wait for the return of detachable back panels to the mobile world.
According to this new law that 587 The European Parliament has voted in favor of it, manufacturers must also declare on the label of their consumer products what the carbon footprint of their device is. The union wants to raise the minimum recycling rate of battery waste materials to 95% by 2031.
When will phone batteries be replaceable again?
The new EU law until before The year 2027 It will not be implemented and will only cover the areas that are members of this union. However, designing two different types of products for different markets by phone manufacturers would be a strange thing, and we have to wait to see how companies like Apple and Samsung will eventually change the design of their products.
It should be mentioned that using a replaceable back panel can mean losing the device’s resistance to water; Unless a different design is introduced for phones to somehow solve this problem. Considering that there is a lot of time left until the implementation of this law, companies will have time to think about redesigning their products and think of a way to comply with this law.
The European Union had previously required companies to provide USB-C ports for charging electronic devices in another law. According to this law, even Apple is forced to use USB-C instead of the Lightning port if it releases a mobile phone that still has a charging port.