Ukraine banned e-liquid flavors other than tobacco last July. Being semi-legal, disposable manufacturers often offer options not available in strictly legal products-like a wide variety of flavors. But some of those volunteers were vapers and they thought of a workaround: the disposable vapes they had stored for recycling.Īs in most other European countries, disposable vapes have taken over the Ukrainian gray and black markets that supply many vapers, partly because open-system products like mods and tanks are difficult to sell in convenience stores where self-service and quick transactions are the order of the day. When volunteers building devices to help Ukraine’s soldiers looked for batteries, they discovered there weren’t many options, and what was available was very expensive. A single-use AA alkaline cell only produces 1.5 volts, but a rechargeable lithium ion 14500 cell-which is the same physical size as a AA-is rated at 3.7 volts, as are most other small lithium ion batteries, like 18650s. The reason is that high-power/high-amp single-use batteries aren’t common and don’t put out as much voltage for as long a period as equal-sized lithium batteries. Even though disposables are intended to be single-use vapes, their power sources are the same kind of rechargeable lithium batteries used in refillable vaping products. Delivering anything to Ukraine during the war isn’t easy airports are closed, ports blockaded, and normal supply chains have been severely disrupted.īatteries are expensive and hard to get-especially the rechargeable lithium ion cells needed to run power-hungry electronic products. While devising war materials that don’t require moving parts or electronics is relatively easy, getting needed electronic products-and powering them-is more difficult.
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