Lithium-ion batteries are used in traction batteries of electric vehicles and hybrids, and laptops. Moreover, they have the same size - 18650, which allows to use the services of the same suppliers.
Encouraged by demand from the electric manufacturers, suppliers of lithium-ion battery type 18650 steel serve the notebook manufacturers on leftovers. The market of laptops this year is watching the rise. There is a shortage not only in batteries, but also LCD panels, and solid state drives . Experts tend to associate the increase in demand for laptops advent of interest in the Windows 10 and the new processors, as well as the depletion of stocks of the previous generation products.
Manufacturers of batteries used the situation to pull up prices, demanding with notebook manufacturers to tens of percent more than previously. In the fourth quarter, according to its own estimates, the manufacturer Simplo Technology batteries will increase revenues in the sequential comparison by 15%, or even more. Lithium polymer batteries also are in short supply because of its ultra-thin notebooks for going to use not only Apple, but also Acer, and Asustek. Related Products :
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