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17
Jun

Energizer’s Bid to Dominate the Rechargeable Batteries Market Continues To Falter

Becoming a leader in the rechargeable batteries market has proven elusive for the disposable battery giant.

When most people think “batteries,” Energizer and Duracell are the two brands that usually make the short list. After all, it was these two battery giants that put consumer batteries on the map, essentially becoming the ubiquitous names for what batteries are to the average consumer. Up until recently, the battle for battery supremacy has been fought between these two companies, with Energizer bunnies and Duracell jingles being hurled about in their advertising campaigns like mortar rounds on a battlefield.

The rise of rechargeable batteries, however, has changed the face of battery warefare.

While Duracell has mostly positioned itself to remain in the domain of disposable alkaline batteries, Energizer has made an aggressive bid to corner the market on rechargeable batteries, launching a new line of Energizer NiMH rechargeable batteries, battery chargers, and an equally robust marketing campaign. And yet, even with all this research, development, and marketing, Energizer hasn’t been able to use its brand to push out the leaders in rechargeable battery technology. What gives?

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22
May

Lithium Ion Rechargeable Batteries: Great in the iPad & Kindle, But Are They Safe?

The rechargeable batteries in Apple’s iPad and Amazon’s Kindle are both Lithium Ion-based. They are proven to be great rechargeable batteries, but are they really safe?

If you have followed the “tablet talking points” for both the iPad and Kindle, then you’ll know that one of the technological features of both of these popular devices are their incredibly long-lasting rechargeable batteries. The Kindle can go for almost two weeks without having to be charged. The iPad has a more modest charge life of 10 to 12 hours, but given the power and productivity of the iPad, this is still an amazing breakthrough in battery technology.

Both tablets, as well as virutally every laptop and high-tech electronic gadget on the market today, are now using Lithium Ion, or Li-Ion as they are commonly known, as the rechargeable battery technology of choice. To date, it has proven to be the superior technology for rechargeable batteries, and many battery experts believe that Li-Ion rechargeable batteries will eventually replace NiMH rechargeable batteries in hybrid automobiles as well as the consumer AA and AAA market.

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21
May

Li-Ion Rechargeable Batteries: Will They Become the New King of the Rechargeable Battery Market?

Lithium Ion or “Li-Ion” rechargeable batteries have become the gold standard for high-end electronics. But will the technology overtake the entire consumer battery market?

When it comes to overall performance, Lithium Ion rechargeable battery technology is by far the most advanced in the world today. All of the top electronics devices use Li-Ion rechargeable batteries, such as laptops, iPhones, digital cameras, the Kindle, and many others. At the present time, hybrid car batteries are all NiMH rechargeable batteries. However, because Li-ion cells hold roughly twice as much energy per pound as do the previous generation of advanced batteries, it is believed that the next generation of hybrid car batteries will be Li-Ion, meaning that the charge and life cycle of the battery will last longer.

Because the Li-Ion has proven itself to be such an advanced design for making long-lasting rechargeable batteries, it didn’t take long for the technology to surface in your everyday AA, AAA, C, D, and 9-volt varieties. Energizer, for example, has attempted to outpace the wave of NiMH rechargeable batteries flooding the market now, and is offering both an advanced lithium and ultimate lithium battery that is quickly overshadowing their own NiMH product. Energizer’s “advanced lithium” AA batteries promise to offer the same powerful battery technology that you’d find in top-tier electronics, just in a smaller, lighter package, and surprisingly affordable package.

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