Author’s note · 2026-01-01
The Chemistry of Power
Batteries are not magic, they are chemistry with rules. Drawing on the thousands of batteries ZiggaTech inspects a year, why most people are destroying their device's lifespan by following outdated advice from 2015.
Most battery advice in circulation is correct advice for a chemistry that is no longer in the device. Draining to zero before charging, and charging only to full, came from nickel-based cells and their memory effect. Lithium-ion does not work that way.
The rules that actually apply are less intuitive. Lithium-ion prefers shallow, frequent cycles to deep ones, and its real enemies are heat and time spent sitting at the extremes of charge. Following 2015 advice on a 2026 device is not neutral. It measurably shortens the life of the cell.
The reason ZiggaTech can write this with authority is volume. The intake lab inspects thousands of batteries a year, which turns what would otherwise be forum folklore into an observed pattern across a large sample of real devices in real Lagos conditions.
That is the same principle Ore applies across the business. A claim is worth publishing when it comes from something the operation actually sees, at a scale that makes the pattern trustworthy.
For a buyer the practical implication is small and immediate. Charge often and shallowly, keep the device out of heat, and stop optimizing for a chemistry that left the market a decade ago.