hey everybody how's it going hope you're
having a lovely day so today what i'd
like to discuss is this little piece of
news from european parliament on
replaceable batteries or the requirement
that items have replaceable batteries i
want to talk about a little bit and go
from there so this here says there are
new rules on batteries meps want more
environmental and social ambition
batteries to be more sustainable easier
to replace including on smartphones due
diligence standards across the entire
value chain what i found interesting
here was batteries for light means of
transport such as electric scooters and
bikes and the ability that consumers and
independent operators can easily and
safely remove them and replace them now
i already know on a smartphone that it
is a royal pain in the ass to replace a
battery this here is a samsung s10e and
i just recently replaced my battery
because i have no need to get a new
phone this is more than enough for me
and i love that it has a micro sd card
slot it fits in my hand it has a
headphone jack so i could plug my little
rode shotgun microphone into it when i'm
on the go so i got another battery and
it is kind of a pain in the ass to
replace the battery on here
half of it is finding a battery because
on samsung's own parts website they are
out of stock of batteries for this and
have been for about three months so i
got one of these but admittedly this
thing kind of sucks
once the phone hits 16 percent it just
dies but the other thing that's
difficult about it
is having to pry the back off of this
phone not crack it re-adhese it make it
look nice and all that when again back
in the day with my s5 which was also
liquid a nice liquid resistant phone to
replace the battery i literally went
boop boop and put a new one in so it's
just interesting to see them address
this but more interesting to me because
i didn't even know about this is when
they said light means of transport
because i just assumed that on a bike or
an electric scooter that the battery was
going to be replaceable because again
all my electric bikes have been electric
bikes that i build myself i buy the bike
i have somebody put together the bike
and then i electrify it and the idea of
the battery not being replaceable on an
electric vehicle
that's insane because again the battery
on this phone it's a pain in the ass to
get to it but we're talking about a
battery that is you know like ten bucks
on a device that goes for about three
hundred dollars but some of these
electric bikes and scooters they go up
to you know five hundred five thousand
six thousand seven thousand dollars the
idea that when the battery dies on a 5
000 bike that it's trash is insane to me
and i didn't even really know about this
until very very recently so my friend
sunny has an electric bike that he did
not put together himself because he does
not want to go on fire and one of the
interesting things i found about that
bicycle is the battery for that bicycle
is actually built into the frame
so when the battery dies um
on my electric bicycle what i do is i
unstrap it from the frame i strap a new
one in and i plug it in on his bike when
his battery dies
you buy a new bike and the battery is
inside of the frame so when something
happens to that battery you're buying a
new bicycle and i think that that's
really kind of crazy now when it came to
devices like smartphones and everything
i've said that while i have a preference
for user replaceable batteries that are
easy to replace that's my personal
preference i never really wanted to
enshrine how you design the device in
law because
my idea of a personal nightmare is
listening to ted cruz mitch mcconnell
nancy pelosi aoc and
whoever chuck schumer argue over how a
modern piece of technology should be
designed i think that that would result
in absolute horrible gridlock you can
come up with a general set of
philosophical principles meaning however
it is you put this together however it
is you design it make stuff available to
us that's really really easy and basic
to legislate and really really easy and
basic to follow versus actually asking
our idiot politicians to put together
a list of how to design modern
technology that just again that just
kind of scared me even though it is my
preference that i'd be able to buy a
phone where i do this and i can just pop
in a different battery i i was always
kind of wary of going that far with
legislation when it comes to legislation
i really do look for the bare minimum
necessary to get freedom for people but
when it comes to something like an
electric vehicle a scooter or a bike
there i kind of tend to
i find i think it's kind of disgusting
that it's slowly kind of creeping in
that you can actually spend five
thousand or six thousand or seven
thousand dollars on a piece of
transportation that has a battery that
has a limited lifespan to the point
where that piece of transportation will
then become considerably useless for its
primary
purpose once that is done and i really
don't like the idea of of that creeping
in so i'm very curious what you all
think do you think that there should be
some form of legislation that makes it
so that consumers and independent
operators can easily and safely remove
batteries or do you think that that's
something that just should not be
getting into legislation at all it's
it's one of those things that is really
uh aggravating so if you know again i
have the skill set to replace battery
here i have a short bluetooth headset
i've been using i've been a fanboy of
the shore iem since around 2004 when i
got my set of shore e3c for about 55
bucks with a coupon code back in the day
and you know i've used their bluetooth
ones now and my battery used to last
really long and now it it says eight
hours an hour later it'll say four hours
an hour later it'll say battery low and
i don't know where i can open this i
know how to open this um i don't know
where i get a battery for it and they
were charging 150 bucks for this cable
when it came out this is a this is a
bluetooth cable that's 150 and they uh
and you know i cannot buy a battery even
if i can open it and it's a royal pain
in the ass when you have more and more
and more devices that are being designed
that way and one of the things that i've
been particularly surprised at over the
past five years i would have never
guessed this
is that there are people who've said i
support right to repair but i would
never support it if it meant to them
mandating uh that battery should be
removable and i've again i understand if
a customer of a product says i accept
the non-removable battery but it's very
very strange when i read comment
sections or web forms where i actually
see people that are begging for it like
please take away my freedom it's not
that i'll put up with it but please i
need you to take away my freedom if you
don't take away my freedom i won't even
buy your product that's very strange to
me because i remember the days when
phones were very sleek very sexy nice
backs and everything else and they also
use removable batteries like it was was
the htc um sensation 4g really that
disgusting for its time
you know it's it's weird to me when i
read comment sections about this where
people are
it again they're not just saying i would
accept a device that has a non-removable
battery
please don't allow me to remove my
battery please make it hard please give
me an excuse every two years to get
another one rather than fix the one that
i have
i'm really curious where where you all
stand with this let me know what you
think in the comments down below and
that's it for today and as always i hope
you learned something i'll see you on
the next video bye now