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Lumafield Peers Into The 18650 Battery

Summary by Hackaday
and [Andreas Bastian] of Lumafield recently visited with [Adam Savage] to share their battery quality report, which documents their findings after performing X-ray computed tomography scans on over 1,000 18650 lithium-ion batteries. The short version — don’t buy cheap cells! The cheaper brands were found to have higher levels of manufacturing defects which can lead them to being unsafe. All the nitty-gritty details are available in the report, w…
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Hackaday broke the news in on Sunday, February 1, 2026.
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