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[–] 58 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Anti-clickbait title: the US federal regulation limiting cell phone battery capacity.

If you want to skip the click through: 20Wh maximum

https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-49/subtitle-B/chapter-I/subchapter-C/part-173/subpart-E/section-173.185

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  • [+] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)
  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    The Watt-hour (Wh) rating may not exceed 20 Wh for a lithium ion cell or 100 Wh for a lithium ion battery.

    The difference between cells and batteries is that you have to have multiple lithium cells to make a battery.

    Edit: this is around 25000 mAh

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    I'm guessing a pouch cell counts as 'one cell' vs. a larger battery pack with multiple cylindrical cells.

    It also explains why Apple does that weird thing with 4-5 batteries in a macbook...

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)
  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    If you read the article or regulation, you'll note that there are some ways to get around this by dividing the battery into cells.

    Also, that is a fucking hilarious "phone."

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    phone specs are decently good enough for my needs these days that id be happy to just get something like this with low specs but a ridiculously massive battery capacity (as long as its as advertised, id look into it)

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    [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    I call BS on the regulatory argument. My previous cellphone, a Ulefone Armor 3W, came with a whopping 10,300 mAh Li ion battery. That\s almost 40 W/h, yet I could buy it freely.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    I'm not super convinced a 20 Wh battery is much safer than 40 or 50 Wh one. I guess if my phone's battery bursts into flames in my pocket I would want the smaller battery. I would like if the regulation required greater than 20 Wh batteries to use a non-flammable electrolyte chemistry like Lithium Iron Phosphate.

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