Why does refrigerating your batteries increase their life but taking a laptop in the cold kills the battery?


Posted February 1st, 2010 by admin 4 Comments »
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hipp5 asked:


It’s said that if you want to prolong the shelf life of a battery you should put it in the fridge. That makes sens to me because it’s slowing down the internal reactions of the battery.

However, whenever I walk to class with my laptop in the winter or have my camera in my pocket in the winter it significantly decreases the charge on the battery. Why this contradiction?