More Sony Batteries Recalled

Scott Hagerman passes along news of yet another recall of Sony laptop batteries. The batteries in question, manufactured in the same timeframe as those involved in the massive 2006 recall, are in laptops sold by HP, Dell, Toshiba, Lenovo, and Acer. Neither Apple nor Sony itself used these batteries in their laptops. This time 100,000 batteries are involved — 65,000 of them sold outside of the US — vs. the 10 million recalled in 2006. The Consumer Product Safety Commission fielded 19 reports of batteries overheating and/or catching fire.

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That does not surprise me!

[Wolfmandan72]

Its funny how Sony does not use their own batteries because of this problem!

Lenovo and Acer?

[Anonymous Coward]

I only see HP, Toshiba and Dell mentioned on the two linked to websites. Where do the mentions of Lenovo and Acer come from?

Re:That does not surprise me! It should.

[Finallyjoined!!!]

Sony does not use their own batteries

1d10t.

They buy batteries in. "Hey, Korean battery manufacturers, I want 125 million batteries, to this spec. 'How much?' - Nah, too expensive", "Hey Taiwanese battery manufacturers". some time passes. "Hey small Chinese province battery manufacturers"

"w00t, we got 125 million batteries for the same price as 62.5 million Big Macs"

Re:known issue

[Predathar]

karma :)

Re:Outsourcing can be expensive

[cpghost]

Seriously, after Mattel, VW and Sony, how many examples do managers need to figure out that low-cost labor can be very costly?

It's not necessarily low-cost labor as it is low-cost materials used in those batteries.