Guess I am ^^ thank you! And no worries, thanks for being cool.

Sorry but I’m about to give you nightmares… I didn’t know about this.

Just because you know something, doesn’t mean everyone does.

I was 28 years old when I learned ponies are not just young horses.
Ridiculous I know, but sometimes people just assume wrong things until they learn more about them.

Reporting on that stuff is important and I feel like comments like yours may discourage some from posting news in fear of being called out.

“The only way to overcome it is with immigrants”
How about paying people fairly in regards to how hard, important and unattractive the job is?

Yup, these two illustrate pretty well why those laws are important

Oh yeah that’d be the dream.

I didn’t mean moving battery cells from one pack to another though, I meant being able to get new 18650 cells and pop them In your battery pack like it’s a remote controller.

I think both of these ideas would be great changes.

Yeah maybe we’ll see more and more articles about it until 2027 comes, then some more ^^

I managed to not hear about this before now though so I won’t complain about this :)

The first article you posted is from a week ago.

Thanks for posting the law though, for anyone else curious about it here is the article that talks about replaceability :

(LMT = Light Means of Transport)

Article 11

Removability and replaceability of portable batteries and LMT batteries

1.

Any natural or legal person that places on the market products incorporating portable batteries shall ensure that those batteries are readily removable and replaceable by the end-user at any time during the lifetime of the product. That obligation shall only apply to entire batteries and not to individual cells or other parts included in such batteries.

A portable battery shall be considered readily removable by the end-user where it can be removed from a product with the use of commercially available tools, without requiring the use of specialised tools, unless provided free of charge with the product, proprietary tools, thermal energy, or solvents to disassemble the product.

Any natural or legal person that places on the market products incorporating portable batteries shall ensure that those products are accompanied with instructions and safety information on the use, removal and replacement of the batteries. Those instructions and that safety information shall be made available permanently online, on a publicly available website, in an easily understandable way for end-users.

This paragraph shall be without prejudice to any specific provisions ensuring a higher level of protection of the environment and human health relating to the removability and replaceability of portable batteries by end-users laid down in any Union law on electrical and electronic equipment as defined in Article 3(1), point (a), of Directive 2012/19/EU.

2.

By way of derogation from paragraph 1, the following products incorporating portable batteries may be designed in such a way as to make the battery removable and replaceable only by independent professionals:

(a)

appliances specifically designed to operate primarily in an environment that is regularly subject to splashing water, water streams or water immersion, and that are intended to be washable or rinseable;

(b)

professional medical imaging and radiotherapy devices, as defined in Article 2, point (1), of Regulation (EU) 2017/745, and in vitro diagnostic medical devices, as defined in Article 2, point (2), of Regulation (EU) 2017/746.

The derogation set out in point (a) of this paragraph shall only be applicable where such derogation is required to ensure the safety of the user and the appliance.

3.

The obligations laid down in paragraph 1 shall not apply where continuity of power supply is necessary and a permanent connection between the product and the respective portable battery is required to ensure the safety of the user and the appliance or, for products that collect and supply data as their main function, for data integrity reasons.

4.

The Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 89 to amend paragraph 2 of this Article by adding further products to be exempted from the removability and replaceability requirements laid down in paragraph 1 of this Article. Such delegated acts shall be adopted only on account of market developments and technical and scientific progress, and provided that there are scientifically grounded concerns over the safety of end-users removing or replacing the portable battery, or in cases where there is a risk that the removal or the replacement of the battery by end-users would be in violation of any product safety requirements provided for by applicable Union law.

5.

Any natural or legal person that places on the market products incorporating LMT batteries shall ensure that those batteries, as well as individual battery cells included in the battery pack, are readily removable and replaceable by an independent professional at any time during the lifetime of the product.

6.

For the purposes of paragraphs 1 and 5, a portable battery or LMT battery shall be considered readily replaceable where, after its removal from an appliance or light means of transport, it can be substituted by another compatible battery without affecting the functioning, the performance or the safety of that appliance or light means of transport.

7.

Any natural or legal person that places on the market products incorporating portable batteries or LMT batteries shall ensure that those batteries are available as spare parts of the equipment that they power for a minimum of five years after placing the last unit of the equipment model on the market, with a reasonable and non-discriminatory price for independent professionals and end-users.

8.

Software shall not be used to impede the replacement of a portable battery or LMT battery, or of their key components, with another compatible battery or key components.

9.

The Commission shall publish guidelines to facilitate the harmonised application of this Article.

Replaceable cells in battery packs?

And I didn’t say that anyone said that.
I didn’t get that ‘annual’ was the important part of your question, my bad. Idk man you’re probably right

I have no idea how the legislation came to be, I now realize that was your main question…

I was just giving my opinion on why I think it’s a good thing we have those checks on bikes as well as cars.

So yeah I just meant that there are too many selfish idiots around us to let anyone take full responsibility over their vehicle’s health, bike or car.

They are, but it seems that lots of people have forgotten how to take responsibility for their actions and property…

The age-old story of the (hopefully) few making things suck for everybody.

There’s something weird going on with the flags and country names

I don’t think that’s naive.

The us have influenced many aspects of european life in one way or another, same for most of the world. To influence =/= to be the only reason for.

I guess for the same reason we need annual car inspections.

Probably something along the lines of : people cant be trusted to keep an eye on their vehicle’s condition and we don’t want any more pollution and accidents than there already is.

I think it also helps keep vehicles healthy for longer, even though that effect is negated by the fact that we’re getting pushed to replace perfectly functional cars with electric ones…

Didn’t know sealioning was even a thing until now… This may explain a few interactions I had on Lemmy, I’m also very susceptible to that stuff

Thanks for this, I missed their comments before deletion.

Good on you for your thinking capacity as well, that seems to be getting kinda rare…
Let’s hope and assume it’s a “empty vessels make the most noise” type of situation.