DeWalt USB-C Charging Kit review: your power tool battery can charge gadgets now - The Verge

The $100 DeWalt DCB094 USB Charging Kit lets you add a bi-directional 100W USB-C PD charging port to any DeWalt 20V power tool battery in a literal snap.

Your leaf blower battery should be able to charge a laptop. Your drill battery should charge your phone. And while we’re at it, why shouldn’t our ever-more powerful USB-C power adapters be able to charge those power tool batteries as well?

Fundamentally, there’s not much difference between a battery bank you buy from Anker and a power tool battery from DeWalt — both generally contain the same 18650 lithium-ion cells. But to do all that, your power tool batteries would need a powerful USB-C port.

And that hasn’t really been a thing… till now.

Powering hours of play on your Steam Deck with a DeWalt battery? That’s now a thing #techtok #dewalttools #batterylife

https://www.theverge.com/23287770/dewalt-dcb094-usb-c-pd-charging-kit-review

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