A few days ago, the EU decided some things around sustainability. Among other things, according to the regulation in the future, the batteries of newly produced smartphones and other devices should be interchangeable, as can be read by Golem. While it is not necessarily accessible flaps through which each layman can make a change within a few seconds.

But the change may not be too difficult, but also an exchange is not expensive. It must be possible by not dependent on the manufacturer's service service provider. From 2025 this regulation should apply. The fact that batteries are barely changeable, especially with smartphones, or changing because of the necessary work and not because of the actual battery is often so expensive that he is no longer rewarded, was no longer justifiable from sustainability aspects.

Plans of the Federal Environment Ministry

In the context of the decided regulations, for example, a gluing of the battery in the device, which many manufacturers do is no longer allowed. As the standard reports, there are other aspirations to which the Federal Environment Ministry also wrote a tweet.

Accordingly, for the batteries of E-cars, there will be an indication of the CO2 footprint as well as more rules and transparency for environmental standards from 2024. For newly produced batteries, there should be a minimum of used recycled material from the year 2031.

As far as the interchangeability of batteries in smartphones is concerned, this should generally apply to all products with batteries, their lifetime is potentially longer than that of the battery, including, for example, tablets, electrical toothbrushes or toys. E-bikes are also part of these products.

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