I've been through this with Dell before. Batteries are only covered under the warranty for the first year or the extent of the warranty (which ever comes
I got a fresh battery for my old laptop thanks to that :) The old one was malfunctioning anyway, going down to 10 minutes of running time. // Alexander
My wife's' Latitude has the same problem, and I bought the 3 year warranty that is still covering it, but not the battery. And here I thought we were lucky
... battery warranty is 1 years (in italy) ... last spring, after only 13 months i tried contact dell support but reply was "you need "buy" a new battery".