Producer Responsibility: Batteries Directive
Battery types
Types of battery-Consumer non-chargeable
Battery Type |
Technology |
Typical Uses |
| Portable (non-rechargeable) | General purpose: Alkaline manganese | Digital Cameras, cordless phones, minidisc players |
| General purpose: Zinc carbon and Zinc chloride | Clocks, portable audio devices, torches, toys, cameras, torches, smoke detectors, door bells, road/cycle lamps, electric fences | |
| Button cells: Zinc air and Silver oxide | Watches, hearing aids, electronic instruments e.g. calculators | |
| Lithium (various chemistries) | Digital watches, memory backup, electronic games, gas/electricity meters | |
| Portable (rechargeable) | Nickel Cadmium (NiCd)-sealed cell | Mobile phones, personal stereos, power tools, cordless telephones, laptops, emergency lighting, walkie-talkies, |
| Nickel Metal Hydride (NiMH) | Laptops, PDAs, mobile phones, pagers, data collection equipment | |
| Lithium Ion | Mobile phones, laptops, PDAs, scientific instruments, video/digital/TV cameras, iPods. | |
| Lead Acid | Torches, laptops, telephones | |
| Automotive | Lead Acid | Automotive/ Motorcycle Starter, Lighting and Ignition (SLI), Cars, trucks, coaches, buses, military vehicles, trains, boats/ships, submarines |
| Industrial | Lead Acid Standby | Alarm systems, emergency back-up lighting and computer systems, e.g. rail, telecommunications applications, telephone exchanges, house and industrial alarms, computer back up |
| Lead Acid Traction/Electric Vehicles | Motive power sources, e.g. forklift trucks, milk floats fork lift trucks, tow tractors, wheelchairs, golf trollies, bicycles, floor scrubbers, scissor lifts, cherry pickers | |
| Nickel Cadmium (NiCd)-sealed cell | medical equipment | |
| Nickel Cadmium (NiCd)-industrial cell | Motive and standby applications, e.g. satellite and rail applications Planes, trains, diesel generator starting, emergency power back up, remote area power supply | |
| Lithium (various chemistries) | security devices, point of sale terminals, military uses |
Page last modified:
10 May 2005
Page published: 10 May 2005