Last Modified October 9, 2024

Usually when you need a battery, you need it now or very soon. It’s the rare person that thinks ahead to future battery needs, especially when we are talking about the ubiquitous commodified ‘household’ or ‘standard’ battery sizes such as AA, AAA, 9V, etc.  So, when a battery comes up in one's life, it’s typically because you need one now to do something now. 

People are left to stop the task, project, or fun at hand and find some batteries - run to the store, or stock up on batteries or poach some batteries from your kids’ toys perhaps. There are no good solutions during that moment of need. And, after they are used, then what? Most people end up with a drawer of new and semi-used batteries and a box, bag or bin of used batteries that they fully intend to recycle sometime. 

So, why are more people not using rechargeable batteries for their daily uses? Wouldn’t it make sense that by now everyone should be using rechargeable batteries? 

One of the reasons rechargeable batteries haven’t been adopted by most consumers is that long and inconvenient charging (and low voltage and self-discharge issues) meant that you couldn’t just have access to a battery in a time of need. 

Paleblue batteries are a stable voltage right to the last 1% of discharge where the voltage finally dips. There is one important and often overlooked great benefit of our decision to design batteries this way. 

In a time of need you can charge a Paleblue battery for a few minutes and have a full power battery. It won’t be fully charged yet, but it will be ready to deliver full power to the host product. You can always go charge it later for the full charge, but if you need a battery now, or very soon, Paleblue offers you immediate access to a full power battery in a way that no other battery does.

One last point to note here is that our batteries charge faster during the beginning of their charger cycle and charging slows down towards the end. This helps protect the long term reliability of the battery.