The power tool company behind DeWalt, Black & Decker and Craftsman is testing batteries that don’t explode

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Here are two things you probably don’t know:

One, a whole bunch of the top power tool brands — including DeWalt, Black & Decker, Craftsman, Porter-Cable and more — are all owned by the same company, Stanley Black & Decker. Those 20-volt lithium-ion battery cartridges you stick into your drill, circular saw and weed whacker are all pretty much the same thing.

Two, a tiny startup called Amionx has figured out how to make lithium-ion batteries that don’t explode when they’re crushed, shot, or stabbed.

Which is why I’m pretty excited — if maybe prematurely — that Stanley Black & Decker has just announced it plans to put Amionx’s “SafeCore” battery technology into a actual product. I say prematurely, because neither Amionx nor Stanley...

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