Electric bike battery explodes inside elevator.

https://x.com ^ | Jul 28, 2024 | Posted by Ted Nugent

[Enterprise]

Electric bike battery explodes inside elevator.

[arthurus]

In Gainesville Fl. If you get off your bike and turn around, when you turn back you bike will be gone. When I lived down there bikes were treated as common property. It seemed as if anyone were to notice a bike unattended for a few seconds he would feel obliged to take it. that's anyone! I saw bikes cabled to trees with lo-o-o-ng cables twined through every loop in the frame and through the wheels with the handlebars and seats missing or wheel-less frames chained to bike racks or lone wheels chained to fences.

[ThanhPhero]

In Việt Nam there are millions of those things. It seems that every ten year old has one and I have never seen or heard of a battery exploding. I have heard of at least a few here burning down sheds and trees and at least one exploding while being ridden.

[Vendome]

Crisped him...

[ProtectOurFreedom]

I would not be surprised if you will need a rider on your homeowners or renters insurance policy to cover e-bikes. And it won’t be cheap.

[vivenne]

I think they are already doing this. In NYC insurance companies won’t insure done apartments unless they ban E-Bikes for the reason the horrible video illustrates.

[Reno89519]

And those same batteries are sent to the US.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

My wife has a Trek e-bike and it uses Bosch battery, charger and electronics. We store it in the garage when she isn’t using it. We should probably detach the battery and move it somewhere else, get it out of the garage.

[Jonty30]

Sure, why not. You think electricity won’t travel through the air?

Tesla thought it could.

[vivenne]

The buildings they are housed in.

[mass55th]

Salty Cracker featured the video on his Rumble Channel, but thankfully he only described what happened after the battery exploded, and wouldn’t show the guy’s terrible condition when being dragged out of the elevator. This was in China I believe.

[Mama Shawna]

I was replying to the comment about imagine this in bumper to bumper traffic, meaning electric cars. Wasn’t referring to e-bikes. Sorry for the confusion.

[mass55th]

"Where did this occur?"

China.

[arthurus]

Gaea.

[arthurus]

As a death, it was not traumatic. It killed him before he even felt it.

[arthurus]

He looked quite dead when he was being dragged out of the elevator. I have worked security at a number of condos on the beach and have seen a few strange things on elevator cameras but this one is the worst.

[Jonny7797]

Talk about a bad day.

[Jonty30]

From other sources, he lived another 28 days in agony.

[arthurus]

It is not legally required just as it is not required for motorcycles, at least in most states but I am sure it is available for purchase.

[doorgunner69]

Stick with your day job, and do not use radioactive electricity from nuclear power plants.

[ThanhPhero]

In Việt Nam 20 years ago there were a lot of Chinese scoots, gas, of course, but they fell apart pretty quickly and were eventually just bought so someone who got a job had some transportation until he made enough money to get a Japanese, Korean, or Taiwanese bike all of which hold up very well. When the electric bikes came on the market about ten years ago they were and are almost all made in China but have no exploding battery problems that i can discern. Perhaps it is because they are relatively weak compared to better brands.