HP is recalling batteries for some notebook or mobile workstation products after numerous reports of overheating, property damage and a burn injury.
It estimates that about 50,000 batteries are involved, sold with products between December 2015 and December 2017. HP received eight reports of battery packs overheating, melting, or charring, including three reports of property damage totaling ... [ read the full article ]
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Originally posted by Bozobub: HP doesn't make the batteries they use and never did. As far as I know, no laptop manufacturer does, although there certainly may be exceptions.
No, but they do source them. It seems like every generation of HP laptop has some terrible battery...and generally they only do recalls on the ones that start fires and hurt people. They have had so many recalls...in some cases recalling a certain battery for a certain laptop, without recalling the exact same battery on other almost identical models. A company like HP shouldn't have trouble sourcing decent batteries; and after all they have been through, you would think they would put a couple extra cents into batteries that work.
