Episode 1727
Are ALL power tool batteries about to change? Plus new laws that will change how we work
It seems the last few years when products are forced to change with new laws it starts in the European Union. We saw that this last few years with the new Apple Iphone with the change to USB-C. Now it looks like they are at it again with our power tools and this might not be for the better if you have a higher end tool. Lets explore how that could turn out and then there are some new labor laws in the US that will change some employee relationships in design construction and even media. We talk about that and MORE in our Weekday Special.
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Transcript
[00:00:33] Eric Goranson: Thanks for joining me today on the podcast. I really appreciate it. So this is where we talk about the stuff that didn't happen in last week's show. And it's not going to make it into this weekend show. So we call it our weekday special. And we got a couple of big things to talk about today. One of them is something that's happening over in Europe.
[:[00:01:15] Eric Goranson: com. This is an interesting one and this is happening in the European union. And people aren't really talking about this yet. But I think it's going to affect power tool batteries. See, they've got a new law coming out that will end up going into effect in 2026, 27, 28 out in that timeframe. And here's, what's going to happen is they are going to make anything electronic with a battery, have a replaceable battery, but I think this is going to go even farther.
[:[00:01:59] Eric Goranson: [00:02:00] Now the new phones have USB C. So we can see how this is going to affect things. And what they're talking about doing now with this new law is it is going to change how we do power tools because it looks like they're going to mandate in Europe. Power tool batteries are universal, and this is going to be interesting.
[:[00:02:41] Eric Goranson: This is not like you're putting in a double A battery. And basically that's what they're trying to do is make it so that Any, no matter where you go buy a C battery or AA or AAA that they all fit in the same spot. They're trying to do that with power tool batteries. The problem that I see with this is it's not just batteries inside.
[:[00:03:27] Eric Goranson: If they do this, is this going to make power tools dumber? Because I got a feeling. That if you have that just regular run of the mill black and Decker drill set, and I go through that on my walk, Milwaukee, I'm going to guess it doesn't have the same chip set and stuff in it. I'm going to guess it's going to work, but are they going to have to make it?
[:[00:04:11] Eric Goranson: Hopefully that they're not going to get dumber. And so I'm just a little concerned about that. Now I have not tried out there. And yes, I do know that there are these acts, you know, you could jump on Amazon and buy adapters to be able to run a one battery on another tool. And quite frankly, I don't trust them.
[:[00:04:48] Eric Goranson: So it's something that I have not tested yet. And I have not wanted to void warranties on tools by doing it just because I have nice tools and I don't want to go buy another one, to be honest. So that's something there. [00:05:00] And now here's another thing that happened, which is going to change Business radio, contracting, design work out in the field.
[:[00:05:36] Eric Goranson: And what this is, this is something you see out there where you go to work for company, I used to say X, but now that's a company. So company Z go work for another company and they say, cool, you're going to come work for us. We want you to design stuff. We want you to understand our business model. However, comma, we are not going to let you leave here without having a non compete for a year because you're going to have a lot of our information, a lot of our access [00:06:00] to our stuff.
[:[00:06:18] Eric Goranson: Hey, you can work here for us, but you can't go work in that same field for a year or two. And you think about it when Adam Corolla had a radio show, he had a 10 year contract, I believe, and he had a paid non compete. So that contract meant That he couldn't go out and start a radio show on another thing because he was still under contract and because they canceled they didn't cancel they changed the format of his home radio station their insurance Paid out his contract for the last next, what, nine years or something crazy like that.
[:[00:07:04] Eric Goranson: It's going to change. Media as we see it, you're going to see hosts jumping between places as well as design firms and everything else. Will it have any change to a homeowner? Yeah, it might. I think you'll see people changing around a little bit more in the construction industry that have those. Larger companies that say, you can't do this.
[:[00:07:41] Eric Goranson: So that is a rule that's coming out. That's going to change stuff there as well. Going to be interesting to see how all of these things go out. And that's not so much a homeowner, but you'll see that difference out there. I think with designers, architects, contractors that could change that look, which will make it very interesting.
[:[00:08:22] Eric Goranson: We always get the trolls of the competition out there, putting up some bad reviews from time to time. And I knew who they are. And it just, it's part of this thing. It's like restaurants and Yelp reviews. You get people trying to hold you hostage and guess what ain't going to happen. So I could use your help.
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