You also need to consider temperature and charging if you’re going to be stowing your laptop away for a while. Make sure it’s kept in a cool and moisture-free space, and charge the battery up to 50 ...

The lithium-ion battery in your Mac laptop will lose its ability to charge to its maximum factory-made capacity over time. But you don’t have to take it lying down. Depending on the level ...

Lenovo estimates that a laptop battery should last two to five years on average, or 300 to 500 charge cycles, whichever comes first. HP claims that its own batteries are limited to two to four years, ...

But on Thursday, a company is announcing that a lithium-metal battery it has in development has reached a stability that's competitive with existing lithium-ion batteries, retaining 80 percent of ...

On Monday, venture capital-backed lithium-ion battery player Leyden Energy (formerly called Mobius Power) is launching a replacement lithium-ion battery for laptops that won’t degrade (start .

Without question, we’d all benefit from longer battery life in our laptops, hybrids, and other portable devices. Unfortunately, the current lithium-ion battery (LIB) has pretty much reached its ...

A lithium-ion battery sparked this April fire at CRD's Hartland Landfill, a growing risk from improper disposal ...

A Cheap Piece of Tape Increases Phone, Laptop Battery Life by 10%. Changing the type of tape used in lithium-ion batteries also reduces self-discharge by up to 70%.

Lithium-ion batteries all have a finite number of charge cycles before they start to lose capacity. If your laptop is a few years old and heating up more frequently, it could be a sign that the ...