Perhaps you think that the option of carrying a mobile charger in your bag or backpack could solve a problem that many of us fear: running out of battery. But it is not so easy to find a plug in the middle of the street.
Now you will think that a portable battery is the solution. Something simple and small, like This one they sell on Amazon for less than 20 eurosand that allows us to charge the mobile easily, but from experience I know that it does not always work well.
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When you carry it with you, too many things can happen that end in drama. For example, you carry the powerbank but not the cable, you carry the cable but not the powerbank, you carry both but the powerbank does not have a battery or my favorite and the one that has happened to me the most: you are convinced that you put everything but when you look in the At the bottom of the Mary Poppins bag there is only a piece of gum, lip cocoa and hundreds of tickets that you don’t even know where they came from. No trace of powerbank.
It can also happen that you have gone out partying and such a mini bag cute What are you wearing not even a powerbank, but you are not willing to miss the opportunity to take a selfie with your friends in the middle of the night, or to ask for an Uber to go home when the plan is over.
An external battery that is rented by the hour
And that’s when this idea comes from NakiPower, a Belgian company that was born three years ago and that at MWC 2022 has shown the solution to our problems: an external battery that is rented by the hour.
Let’s go back to the previous situation. We are at the club and about to run out of battery but we have no charger or external battery or anything. We just want to go home because it’s 4 in the morning and we’re exhausted from dancing so much but we can’t order a Cabi. For 50 cents we can have 30 minutes of a powerbank with which to solve the problem.
The performance, as they explain from Xataka that they have already had the opportunity to try it, it is simple. “On each base there is a QR code that the user must scan before picking up the battery. Picking it up, it starts counting. Every half hour the service charges 50 cents up to a maximum of six euros per day. When it finishes, the user has to deposit the battery in any NakiPower base and if we keep it after five days, the company charges you 30 euros and it becomes ours”.
At the moment there are some 3,000 bases distributed in eleven European cities, including Barcelona, and in crowded areas such as bars or hospitals (very practical in the latter case for emergencies). The implementation continues to grow and it is a solution that could avoid us many dramas and that we love.
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Photos | The Bold Type, Xataka