Sony notebook batteries recall

The problems plaguing computers with batteries from Japanese electronics giant Sony increased when Toshiba, IBM, Lenovo, and Fujitsu all issued recalls

Due to at least 40 reports of laptop batteries overheating and causing fires (collective report of affected PC manufacturers), Sony has recalled 100,000 Lithium Ion batteries (35,000 in the US and another 65,000 in other countries). Interesting thing is that none of these batteries were actually put in Sony laptops. Instead, most of them (32,000) are in HP Pavilion dv model and Compaq laptops, Toshiba Satellite and Tecra laptops (3,000) and only 150 Dell Latitude and Inspiron laptops.  The batteries were made between 2004 and 2005. Sony issued a statement saying that the defective batteries are related to manufacturing line adjustments from 2004 to 2005. But this is not the first time Sony has recalled laptop batteries. Back in 2006 faulty Sony batteries affected a lot of different companies and resulted in millions of laptop batteries being recalled.