EU Energy labelling will apply to phones and tablets from June 2025
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EU Energy labelling will apply to phones and tablets from June 2025
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Re: EU Energy labelling will apply to phones and tablets from June 2025
#2Key quote:
> The regulations focus on measures to extend product lifetime (reparability, upgradability, battery life). The increase in average lifetime, e.g. from 3.0 to 4.1 years for a mid-range smartphone
Re: EU Energy labelling will apply to phones and tablets from June 2025
#3Nice page! I'm extremely happy about efforts like this. You might argue that the EU is a sprawling, wasteful bureaucracy and you would not be wrong, per se, but they made a lot of useful laws that just simply make the world a better place.
Having standardized chargers for phones and laptops is SUPER nice and would never have happened without intervention IMO.
The only equivalent for US "useful, average-citizen friendly legislation" that I recently heard about was the standardization of powertool batteries pursued by doge-- which turned out to be an april hoax when I just looked it up :(
Re: EU Energy labelling will apply to phones and tablets from June 2025
#4Key quote: > The regulations focus on measures to extend product lifetime (reparability, upgradability, battery life). The increase in average lifetime, e.g. from 3.0 to 4.1 years for a mid-range smartphone
I (unironically) love how the charts are basically "this is gonna save you money by you buying less shit/year, you're welcome".
Re: EU Energy labelling will apply to phones and tablets from June 2025
#5Nice page! I'm extremely happy about efforts like this. You might argue that the EU is a sprawling, wasteful bureaucracy and you would not be wrong, per se, but they made a lot of useful laws that just simply make the world a better place. Having standardized chargers for phones and laptops is SUPER nice and would never have happened without intervention IMO. The only equivalent for US "useful, average-citizen friend…
Sad! Thankfully there are adapters that let you combine different brands, not ideal but hopefully this will be regulated in the future.
Re: EU Energy labelling will apply to phones and tablets from June 2025
#6It's too bad the label won't have the number of charge cycles the battery is good for.
Re: EU Energy labelling will apply to phones and tablets from June 2025
#7Nice page! I'm extremely happy about efforts like this. You might argue that the EU is a sprawling, wasteful bureaucracy and you would not be wrong, per se, but they made a lot of useful laws that just simply make the world a better place. Having standardized chargers for phones and laptops is SUPER nice and would never have happened without intervention IMO. The only equivalent for US "useful, average-citizen friend…
Yeah, to me its crazy how anti-consumer the US is compared to the EU, just because of laws
Re: EU Energy labelling will apply to phones and tablets from June 2025
#8It's too bad the label won't have the number of charge cycles the battery is good for.
That's in the list.
> Battery endurance in cycles.
Re: EU Energy labelling will apply to phones and tablets from June 2025
#9I really like it. It makes being a more conscious customer easier and you can make your own trade-offs by looking at a product and price.
Hopefully online stores will add ability to filter by these criteria.
Re: EU Energy labelling will apply to phones and tablets from June 2025
#10Nice page! I'm extremely happy about efforts like this. You might argue that the EU is a sprawling, wasteful bureaucracy and you would not be wrong, per se, but they made a lot of useful laws that just simply make the world a better place. Having standardized chargers for phones and laptops is SUPER nice and would never have happened without intervention IMO. The only equivalent for US "useful, average-citizen friend…
Yeah, to me its crazy how anti-consumer the US is compared to the EU, just because of laws
This law has more to do with the environment/Energy usage than with the consumer. And the US consumer cares a lot less about energy usage since they're much more energy and monetarily rich than the EU.
If they paid German gas and electricity prices for example while having European wages, they'd care a lot more about energy consumption, believe that.