Bear in mind, Sony is no longer in the battery business. Don't know how many legitimate Sony batteries are out there in the "unsold" category, but I'd start questioning sellers as to how long they've had their stock. Anyone who says they just received the batch from Sony are most likely selling fake rewraps.
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I am in Canada and having a bunch of batteries and a charger shipped to my hotel in California when I travel on business in a week.
I looked at all of the usual US suspects (Liion, RTD and others) and Illumn was the cheapest due to the free shipping. Most of the others charged $12-15.
At $5-6 per battery for Samsung, LG and Sony from a reliable seller, you can’t go wrong.
I looked at all of the usual US suspects (Liion, RTD and others) and Illumn was the cheapest due to the free shipping. Most of the others charged $12-15.
At $5-6 per battery for Samsung, LG and Sony from a reliable seller, you can’t go wrong.
The AW factory had some type of catastrophic flooding incident, thus why AW batteries are tough to find right now anywhere.
I'd read some time back that Sony was interested in selling their battery business to Konion. I'm not sure if that ever happened, maybe @Mooch can shed some light on this.
I found it interesting that NKON is selling Sony Konion US18650VTC4 2100mAh
MNKE was a quite reputable battery manufacturer a few years ago, but sold out to Imren, a rather disreputable aftermarket company. Mooch's recent tests on Imren batteries shows that they remain a disreputable company with outrageous specifications.
Will "Sony Konion" continue the great reputation of Sony batteries, or fall the way of Imren?
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No more Sony batteries
Murata was the company who bought Sony's battery division. Most likely to position itself in the electric vehicle market as they already produce a lot of components for that market.
Ahhh, my mistake. Well, we can now question whether Murata will continue the Sony reputation, or fall by the wayside like MNKE did with the IMREN takeover.
Exactly but I want to think when they were competing for Tesla contracts isn't IMREN basically Sanyo? I want to say I read or saw it somewhere, have no idea, so don't take it for any kind of fact, lol. I only buy LG find them to be the best compromise of quality and price.
Sony’s battery operations have not closed down though:
Murata to pour $450m into Sony battery ops after purchase- Nikkei Asian Review
It’s the same as when Sanyo sold their battery operations to Panasonic. Sanyo was no longer in the battery business but Sanyo batteries are still being made by Panasonic.
Interesting. So in essence, there's been no real change in the operation other than who holds the purse strings. Nice!
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