Lenovo is recalling hundreds of thousands of laptop batteries from customers around the world after several reported that their products had overheated. The manufacturer announced the voluntary recall on Monday. Lenovo is offering to replace, for free, 205,000 extended-life nine-cell batteries that shipped in several of its ThinkPad models. The nine-cell battery packs were sold as part of the following ThinkPad models, or as optional or replacement packs R60 and R60e Series, T60 and T60p Series, Z60m, Z61e, Z61m, and Z61p Series. Last year, Lenovo was one of several laptop manufacturers who were forced to recall batteries after reports of laptops overheating or catching fire. The cells in question were manufactured by Sony. As this article explains, modern laptop batteries contain a large amount of power which can be dangerous if it is discharged over a few seconds, rather than hours, as intended. Let’s just hope that this will be the last recall that we will be seeing.
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