I agree that by 2000/2001 Duracell type batteries would be a thing of the past...and as has already been mentioned the rechargeable batteries of the day ('95 - '97) were not all that long lived and for most common people even having the ability to recharge them would be nill.
In the short term I can see there was probably a flourishing trade market in batteries after the nukes started falling.
If sticking to the v.1 timeline it makes you wonder how many technologies never really got off the ground...personal computers & cell phones were nothing like they are now and not even as prevalent in everyday society as now. (For myself I didn't have either a cell or PC until around '97.)
I've always assumed that not much in the way of new tech or technological advancement would be showing up in the world in general for quite a few years after the war petered out.
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