Originally posted by tonyv
The only time I recall handmade cells being used was at the 12th scale Worlds in Grand Rapids 1992. The cells were from Panasonic (P170s) and only US companies had them. A pack with the handmade cells weighed a whopping 30 grams more per pack compared to the standard Panasonics that the European drivers had to use...
And as far as I know Sanyo was not planning on using handmade cells but cells that are on the market today. Nevertheless, I think this is the only decision IFMAR could have made after apparantly messing up Sanyo's original request for homologation.
Those weren't hand made, those were "injected!", literally