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How to Get Long Life Out of Laptop and Cell Phone Batteries

Tech Soup

I got to talking last week with Kiera Butler of Mother Jones magazine about the best ways to keep the rechargeable batteries in laptops and mobile phones healthy and long-lived. Dell says that a full life span for a garden-variety lithium-ion laptop battery is 18 to 24 months. How well do you maintain your mobile batteries?

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Interview with Jodie Van Horn of Freedom from Oil and Plug-in Bay Area

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What we're trying to do is generate enough support to indicate that we need these announcements out of the auto industry to translate into something tangible. We see this as a potential future for transportation, or at least an immediate step to having ultra-efficient choices in vehicles for the public.