5. Sustainably built in the USA.

Jaguar team members have directed manufacturing efforts for 30+ years. We understand when automation is required and when a human touch is preferable.

We rejected cost reduction methods dependent upon mass manufacturing, which is wasteful and slows the deployment of incremental product component improvements.

Product components, designed by the team, are fabricated in small batches as units are ordered. Jaguar products are assembled by hand.

We begin the process of building your system upon its purchase.

We transport scrap copper, aluminum, and polyethylene pieces to recyclers.

  • Jaguar Wearable Technologies is located in U.S.

  • Hardware components we design are fabricated in the U.S.

  • Our Products are assembled by the Jaguar team, by hand, in the U.S.

Every Pack is tested after assembly. Every Pack receives a unique serial number and every part version used to build each Pack is cataloged to improve service if ever you need support.

Battery Life, Consumption and Waste

It’s not discussed a lot in public consumer forums but recycling Lithium Ion Batteries is a big challenge.

In this age of mobile devices powered by Lithium Ion batteries, many of us have experienced battery degradation. Its often published that high quality Lithium Ion batteries can be recharged and drained between 500 and 800 times before their capacity to store energy is degraded by about 20%. That’s why, generally speaking, regularly used batteries only remain productive for 2 or 3 years.

Various publications, even those trying to put a positive spin on battery use, admit that (only) about 5% of Lithium Ion batteries are recycled; because recycling the battery components more costly then the value of the materials rendered from the process.

One scary estimate shows China alone generates about 500,000 metric tons of used Li-ion batteries each year and that by 2030, the worldwide number will hit 2 million metric tons per year.

So where do 95% of these waste batteries and their associated poisons end up? ….Landfills around the world, most likely.

The SlingIt is designed to reduce battery waste by empowering you to identify individual, degraded, or failing batteries and then, selectively and responsibly dispose of those individual batteries.

Traditional “battery pack" designs are very different from SlingIt's design. Traditional designs lock all a pack's batteries together in a matrix of plastic, wire, and sometimes, spot welds. Traditional designs turn the entire pack into a “consumable" product, which is only productive for 2 or 3 years. End users don’t have the ability to continue using good batteries in the pack after others have failed and the design increases the complexity and cost of recycling.

SlingIt's design puts the power to responsibly manage and dispose of batteries into your capable hands.