Sony hasn’t had it easy on the portable market. The last month or so we’ve reported about the manufacturer’s problems with its batteries for notebooks where several have caught on fire and more or less exploded. The reasons for the fires have been faulty batteries made by Sony. Now Sony has started a massive recall campaign to replace all of the millions of faulty batteries and in the middle of all this comes information which suggests that Sony knew about these problems already in November of last year.
The first case of a burning laptop appeared in November 2005 and after that Sony investigated the fire, a computer made by Dell, it realized that the battery was the cause of it. But since no other manufacturer was reporting about faulty batteries the investigation was put on hold. If it had done a more thorough job Sony would perhaps have been able to prevent the massive recall it is now about to perform.
“Sony will offer to replace certain battery packs for notebook computers in response to concerns over recent overheating incidents.
Sony already faces multimillion-dollar losses from embarrassing recalls of its potentially hazardous lithium-ion computer batteries.”
