I have some hi-cap AA eneloops from when they first came out (when they were called XX instead of Pros) and they are still working fine. I think people who get short life out of the hi-caps are charging them too fast. I use a Panasonic BQ CC-17 charger (a slow but dependable smart charger) and I have no problem with short life spans with eneloops.
Hmm. It’s not easy to obtain Ikea batteries in our country since there is no Ikea store in our country…
Ikea has announced plans last year 2020 to open their very first Ikea store in our country by latter part of this year 2021 (hopefully that pushes through).
I wonder if they will still have stocks of these Ladda batteries when they first open their store…
For my store in Portland, Or sold out online and in store! Lame part is they don’t show sold out though until you go to check out. I will miss these and hope Duracell doesn’t stop selling their FDK rewraps! I guess LADDAloops are gone forever :cry:
They will prpbably replace it with something made in China like Amazon and Duracell and Energizer have done. Cheaper to buy for them, but they charge us the same amount. My guess is it’s getting hard to source the Fujitsu ones or they’re getting too expensive to buy. LSD nimh batteries aren’t cheap to make or buy, and because there’s one factory in Japan that makes them for Panasonic, and for now, Duracell (some of their 2500mah nimh are made by FDK), they have control over vendor and contracts. There’s more factories in China making LSD cells which may not be as good, but the average consumer is blissfully unaware.
Just had a talk with an Ikea employee and she told me that the new rechargeables will come in June/July and they will be blue
This is just an unconfirmed information. But I am interested if it’s true. We will see.
I found Ladda's in a state reasonably close to home. No Ikea stores in my home state. After tax & shipping, genuine Japanese Fujitsu AA's were still slightly cheaper from Amazon with free 5-7 day shipping. I don't have Prime.
It doesn't seem to look good with the Laddas. When I heard about the news, I ordered a few more Laddas from the Ikea online store in Germany. That was at the beginning of May, the delivery date was postponed further and further. Now they say end of May should be delivered. But the batteries are displayed all the time as available on the website.