TL;DR
- The European Council has ended its adoption procedure for rules related to phones with replaceable batteries.
- By 2027, all phones released in the EU must have a battery the user can easily replace with no tools or expertise.
- The regulation intends to introduce a circular economy for batteries.
Only because the US government doesn’t feel like doing any actual governing whatsoever.
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they’re too busy throwing shit at each other (ai debate that’s too real) to govern anything.