Boston Power Snags HP Deal

Boston Power, a three-year-old startup that makes rechargeable lithium ion batteries for laptops, has secured a major laptop customer: Hewlett Packard. In the deal HP will sell Boston Power’s more energy efficient, longer-lasting batteries as a premium upgrade for its laptops. Boston Power wouldn’t divulge how much the added cost would be for the greener battery — called Sonata technology, and branded “HP Enviro Series” for HP — but HP told the WSJ that it would be around $20 or $30 extra.

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