We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Ryobi has been making battery-powered tools for a long time. The company has produced several generations of cordless products, with a marked ...

Readers had a variety of suggestions for the best way to upgrade/replace/recycle the old NiCd battery pack from a still-usable Makita drill. I asked the folks at battery pack designer Nexergy to read ...

A few years ago I bought several Black & Decker garden tools which run off the same 18v NiCd batteries - see photos in this post. I thought I was doing an intelligent thing when I acquired these tools ...

Owing to the fact that we no longer have horses (thank God), we no longer have a need for a hay shed. In the spirit of recycling and good neighborlineness, I offered the shed to our neighbors, ...

After years of use, you may notice you're laptop's battery doesn't last nearly as long as it used to, even when fully charged. No, you're not going crazy, you could just be a victim of the "memory ...

European countries should be legally bound to recycle 55% of NiCad batteries, according to the European Battery Industry Coalition. All cadmium should be recovered from spent rechargeable NiCad ...

Saft recently uncovered a 28-year-old HIP nickel cadmium (Nicd) battery still in service at a major telecommunications company in Texas. The normal lifetime of a Nicd battery, in a typically harsh ...