Without a battery, your expensive laptop or smartphone becomes a hunk of dead electronics. And these rechargeable powerhouses have a finite lifespan: Over time, they will start losing power faster and taking longer to charge.
To extend the battery's useful life for as long as possible, you need to take care of your device properly. That means adopting good charging habits and taking care with battery storage. Here's what you need to know.
The science of lithium-ion batteries
The rechargeable batteries used by today's smartphones, tablets, laptops, and other devices all use a technology called lithium-ion. As you might expect, they contain...lithium ions. As Popular Science explained in our look at Tesla's Powerwall battey:
When the battery is charging, positively-charged lithium ions move from one electrode, called the cathode, to the other, known as the anode, through an electrolyte solution in the battery cell. That causes electrons to concentrate on the anode, at the negative side. When the battery is discharged, the reverse happens. As for those electrons, they move through circuits that are external to the battery, providing juice.
Those electrons actually supply the energy for your smartphone or tablet—or in the case of Tesla, your entire home.
Over the years, scientists have tweaked the formula of the chemical mix inside lithium-ion batteries to try and get them to last longer, charge faster, and work more efficiently. Despite their tinkering, lithium-ion batteries still have a set lifetime. Why?
The cycle of battery charging and discharging and recharging can only repeat a certain number of times: Due to the nature of the chemical reactions happening at the anode and cathode, thin layers of insulating atoms form, obstructing the electrodes' effectiveness. The limit varies, but most rechargeable will last two or three years, so if you've noticed battery life dropping on an old smartphone or laptop, you can blame atomic buildup.
Charging and recharging
So how do you make your lithium-ion battery last as long as possible? You may have heard you need to do a full charge and discharge when your device is right out of the box—but this doesn't really matter on modern batteries. What matters most is how you charge your phone or laptop after you've started using it.
Shallow discharges and recharges are better than full ones, because they put less stress on the battery, so it lasts longer. When your battery is discharging, Battery University recommends that you only let it reach 50 percent before topping it up again. While you're charging it back up, you should also avoid pushing a lithium-ion battery all the way to 100 percent.
If you do fill your battery all the way up, don't leave the device plugged in. Instead, follow the shallow discharge and recharge cycle we just mentioned. This isn't a safety issue: Lithium-ion batteries have built-in safeguards designed to stop them from exploding if they're left charging while at maximum capacity. But in the long term, electronics will age faster if they're constantly plugged in while already charged to 100 percent.
Although shallow charges and discharges hit the longevity sweet spot, there are exceptions to this rule. Once a month, let the battery undergo a full discharge to about 5 percent, just to re calibrate its self-assessment. This mechanism allows your laptop or smartphone to give you an "estimated battery time remaining" reading that's somewhat accurate. Regular full discharges aren't a good idea though. In general, you should be keeping your battery above 20 percent, according to Samsung.
These are all guidelines, by the way: There's nothing dangerous about keeping your phone charged overnight, and modern phones and laptops include mechanisms for minimizing the strain on the battery if your device is plugged in all the time. Fortunately for users, small tweaks and improvements are made to the technology each year, so every time you upgrade your smartphone, you're getting a lithium-ion battery that should go further between charges and last longer overall.
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