• @[email protected]
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    231 month ago

    It wasn’t just lack of demand. It was that versus the actual cost of increased failure rates due to introducing multiple additional points of failure to every battery.

    PowerCharge had significantly higher rates of self-discharge and potassium hydroxide seepage. They were more vulnerable to corrosion in suboptimal storage conditions, perhaps due to putting conductive film beneath the insulator wrapping.

    In other words the proposed value-add of that product line (convenience) was also directly impacting their core brand (maximal reliability).

  • @normalexit
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    221 month ago

    My fingers hurt looking at that image

  • Th4tGuyII
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    161 month ago

    A pretty good summary of the TC video, but without Alec’s passion for odd tech bleeding through it just isn’t as interesting