The IEEE has announced that it is to revise its laptop battery standard, IEEE 1625, which was approved in 2004. The update aims to improve the overall performance of laptop battery systems and to address calls to make these systems more reliable and robust.

The standards body said in September that it would revisit the ‘Standard for Rechargeable Batteries for Portable Computing’, part of the IEEE Livium family of battery standards that provide planning and implementing controls for battery design, manufacture and quality control.

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