I’m planning a six-week trip to Asia in the late summer and I definitely don’t want go there without a flashlight, a GPS device and my camera equipment. But to minimize baggage, I don’t want to carry unnecessary chargers, etc. Which batteries would you recommend as my travel companions?

Dear Matt,

For your trip to Asia we would recommend to bring the following VARTA batteries: For your flashlight which is probably equipped with a LED, some of the VARTA High Energy batteries should fit perfectly since they supply energy-intensive devices smoothly.

For your GPS device and your camera, we recommend our professional lithium batteries because they provide digital devices and cameras with a lot of capacity (last up to seven times longer in cameras) and they are 38 % lighter than AA alkaline Batteries.

Alternatively you could try our rechargeable ready2use power accus for your flashlight and the rechargeable professional accus for your other equipment. Six weeks is a long time and if you decide to bring a charger after all, we would recommend the VARTA Micro USB Charger. This charger is usable worldwide thanks to the global voltage and the USB In function allows to use the laptop or your mobile phone charging cable as a energy source.

What AA batteries would you recommend for a portable wireless mouse? I've tried Max Tech and they lasted 6 months. Would using Lithium AA in low drain devices be a smart thing to do? How do they compare to Max Tech for low drain devices?

Dear Marko,

A portable wireless mouse is not a high drain appliance. Although there is not much performance difference using Max Tech and High Energy batteries in your portable wireless mouse, we recommend to use VARTA High Energy batteries. Lithium batteries are not a better solution as these are designed for high drain devices like e.g. digital cameras. Hope this helps to decide what to buy. Best regards, your VARTA team.

Chris DaytonaGary take off the tin foil hat. Seriously. If the battery tgnlcohoey had already been developed and then shelved, it would be easy to manufacture it again. Extremely easy. And it would save GM and other car companies, and energy companies, who are doing huge amounts of pointless R&D on battery tgnlcohoey, billions of bucks. There HAS NEVER BEEN an electric vehicle that would travel sufficient range, at a sufficient speed, with a sufficient payload, and recharge in a reasonable amount of time. Anyone who tells you differently is just telling silly lies.Your comment, "made the man promise and sign Contracts he would"nt design a newer better one.GM sold out to the OIL companies", is hillarious. So which is it DaytonaGary?!?!? Did GM sell out to the oil companies, or the mystery man you refer to in the same sentence??? If GM had truly developed this tech, the patent would be long expired by now and they wouldn't have spent hundreds of millions developing the Volt, which is going to be a dismal failure without even MORE taxpayer intervention.The EV1 didn't go 400 miles at 60 mph either. Not even close. NOT EVEN CLOSE! Seriously, what planet are you people from??? Do you tin foil hat wearing, oil company hating, pot smoking fools even THINK about how ridiculous what you are saying is??? So GM has had the tgnlcohoey to build an EV with a 400 mile range since the early 80s and decided to scrap it, and then, when they decided to build another electric vehicle, they decided to blow billions on development instead of simply going to the parts bin???? No one who worked on the development simply started a company to rebuild the tech??? Do you know how much money they could make for doing so??? You people are IDIOTS!! LOLOL!! Seriously. Never have I seen a more frightening demonstration of the total lack of logical reasoning power that our government schools have inflicted on the America population. It's unbelievable. June 30 2010 at 11:13 AM rate up rate down

Can you please tell me what is the difference between Varta Phone Power rechageable batteries and other Varta NiMH batteries? What makes Phone Power suitable especially for phones?