Senate Approps wants DoD to use commercial batteries

The committee says the battery issue threatens battlefield effectiveness.

The Senate Appropriations Committee wants the Defense Department to to use double and triple A consumer batteries in its standard battlefield equipment, Next Gov reports.

The Army acknowledges it needs to use a standard battery.

Pew Charitable Trusts Clean Energy Program says the average soldier who goes to Afghanistan uses seven kinds of batteries, and an infantry battalion goes through $150,000 worth of batteries a year.

The committee says the battery issue threatens battlefield effectiveness.

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