IKEA kills off LADDA NiMH made in Japan

Was at IKEA in West Sacramento, CA on Friday 5/28 to buy dishware and it found the white LADDA AA & AAA (made in Japan) endcap was fully stocked.
$6.99 for a 4pack AA
$6.99 for a 4pack AAA

Very glad to see 1900mAh and made in Japan confirmed. I hope HKJ or another thorough tester is able to review a set soon.

I’m surprised to see Ikea offering both 1900mAh and 2450mAh. I assumed we would only see a single variety. The packaging seems to indicate 1,000 cycle and 500 cycle ratings respectively.

I could use some more NiMH cells in both AA and AAA, and want standard capacity, so this is looking like good timing.

Good to know that the new Laddas are still made in Japan. I have now received my delivery and it was still the well-known white ones.
Can you actually see somewhere on the package or on the battery the date of manufacture?

So if they say 1000 cycles they aren’t quite the same as the normal 1900mah eneloops, they state 2100 cycles.

The Date Code for the "white LADDAs" is very lightly embossed on the battery wrapper and hard to see with a format similar to "2044-HW" which would indicate a manufacturing date of week "44" of year "2020". I don't know what the letters following the dash indicate.

Bought more…even though I didn’t need them. Now I have enough for the apocalypse…. and a few more.

Looks like very good news. Can’t quite tell the colour of the new ones in the photo - grey or light blue?

In my eyes they are a mix of grey/green/blue

exciting! thanks for the pics!

my 2450s and 900s are supposed to be delivered end of this week, we’ll see.

for the 1900s, 1000 cycles points to them using less pure (= cheaper) metals for the electrodes, so these should behave more similar to gen1 eneloops than gen4. anyways, ~13 years MTBF is still a lot and internal resistance should stay low for many recharges due to ratio of anode and cathode.
only testing will show.

1900mAh and 1000 cycles only? Are you sure they are really rebadged eneloops?

No, the user community has never been sure with any of the batteries believed to be rebadged Eneloops.

However, if I remember correctly, for the time when AmazonBasics NiMH batteries were made in Japan, they were also marked as good for 1,000 cycles.

It is possible that they are rebadged Eneloops, but come from batches that don’t test as well as those distributed under the Eneloop brand, or that Fujitsu does not allow businesses selling their batteries under other names to claim the same cycle life as Eneloops in order to preserve brand value.

  • Edit - and, of course, it is also possible that they are not Eneloops at all.

Ahhh ok. I understood now.

Hope they will reach my city to buy them locally

For me they come for sure out of the same factory because of the "puncturing" on the bottom.
This doesn't mean they are Eneloops of course and just tells me that they are from FDK.

But we already know that FDK is the only NiMh manufacturer in Japan so my information is basically useless. :D
Just wanted to share my observation with you.

Note to Canadians, the old ones are on sale for CAD$3.99 for either the AA or AAA 4-packs until June 30th. That’s down from the regular $9.99 and $8.99, respectively.

They can also adjust the price from previous purchases, but they give the credit on a gift card. To get refunded, it can be returned within 365 days as long as it’s unopened.

Got myself a fresh batch:

I was in the IKEA store in Ghent, Belgium and they only had (quite a lot) white AAA’s on discount (€4.99 instead of €6.99, so I bought quite a few haha). The white AA’s were gone. The new grey AA/AAA batteries I looked at were all made in Japan!

So just to confirm, the grey big capacity AA (2450mAh) is exactly the same as the old white AA?

The newest IKEA LADDA NiMH batteries with the "grayish-blue colored wraps" (that replace their older batteries with the white colored wraps) are in-stock at IKEA stores located in the US.

Links to the current offerings:

$2.00 each for IKEA LADDA 2450 mAh NiMH AA (4-pack for $7.99)

$1.50 each for IKEA LADDA 1900 mAh NiMH AA (4-pack for $5.99)

$1.38 each for IKEA LADDA 750 mAh NiMH AAA (4-pack for $5.49)

I have not been to the store to inspect them, but I am hoping the batteries are still manufactured in Japan.

Great prices! There was evidence already posted they are made in Japan, so hopefully no surprises there.

I hope we are able to confirm the quality, but for that price I will go ahead and buy some 1900mAh and 750mAh regardless, since I need more AA and AAA rechargeables anyways.

Well, I just tried to order some & they said they could not deliver them. But I could pick them up at the store closest to me, which is Atlanta… about 2 hours away. :frowning:

They would have to pay me to drive to Atlanta & get tangled up in that huge traffic jam to get a few packs of batteries. :person_facepalming: :smiley: :smiley: :smiley:

Sale is still on! Picked up 6 packs at 3.99 each here in Calgary.

I don't think Calgary is any closer to you then Atlanta is it ?