Posted on 10/04/2022 6:20:24 PM PDT by Hojczyk
PLEASE BE AWARE: if partially or totally submerged in water, the lithium-ion battery pack used to power many electric devices and vehicles will suffer damage that will compromise its safety and stability. This damage can be even more severe if your battery pack was submerged in salt water.
Please check your eBike as soon as possible. Unfortunately, if your eBike has been submerged in water during the storm, it’s very likely that its electrical system has been damaged and the eBike is unsafe to use. If the battery pack was partially or totally submerged, we advise that you carefully remove the battery pack from the eBike (or wherever it was stored when submerged), and take it to a safe location OUTDOORS, away from any flammable materials. Leave the affected battery pack OUTDOORS until you are ready to drop it off at the recycling center where it can be safely recycled.
When you are able to properly dispose of the battery, place the battery pack in a clear plastic bag and take it to your municipal household hazardous waste drop-off center. Your local City Hall or Fire Department may have resources to help you find the closest facility in your area, or you can check the Call2Recycle website (https://www.call2recycle.org/locator/) for drop-off locations nearby.
UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHOULD YOU ATTEMPT TO RECHARGE A LITHIUM-ION BATTERY PACK THAT HAS BEEN PARTIALLY OR TOTALLY SUBMERGED IN WATER.
ATTEMPTING TO CHARGE A COMPROMISED LITHIUM-ION BATTERY PACK CAN RESULT IN A VERY DANGEROUS FIRE THAT GENERATES SIGNIFICANT HEAT, TOXIC GASSES AND IS EXTREMELY DIFFICULT TO CONTROL.
Please consult with your insurance company to see whether the eBike was covered by your homeowner’s policy.
Do they mean soaking wet or riding your bike in the lake?
Standby for exploding ICE bicycle photos from TeslaGator.
Most folks I’ve seen riding e-Bikes are seniors. I’m sure they would be popular in Florida with year around use.
I’m old enough to remember when kids rode bikes without helmets.
(Do we really have to say it?)
“Most folks I’ve seen riding e-Bikes are seniors. I’m sure they would be popular in Florida with year around use.”
Really nice when you have a ten mile ride back home into the wind.
“Standby for exploding ICE bicycle photos from TeslaGator.”
Grow up.
We rode bikes without helmets.
Or knee pads, elbow pads and wrist pads.
An, clipped a playing card to the front fork to get the motor sound.
A lot of much younger ones have them too down here. My neighbor Jaye Marie (LPGA tour player) got in a really bad accident on hers up at the beach. Cost her almost a year on tour, and she’s still not right.
Some of them are so powerful that if you’re not well accustomed to motorcycle, dirt bike, etc. use, you had better be careful.
….And we didn’t need no stinkin’ helmets.
Didn’t need seat belts in cars either, right?
Boy they sure did sugar coat that one. I wish that they’d be blunt and just say that any kind of over charge or even normal charge of a Li-ion pack (with just one bad cell) or a partial or direct short circuit can make a cell get hot! As soon as it gets to about 250°F it goes RTE or Runaway Thermal Event. That means it spontaneously ignites into a pretty pink flame thats hot enough to melt glass and water just makes it hotter. All can be done is to let it burn out.
Had them, didn’t use them. Rode in pick-up beds, too. Awesome.
The 4th Amendment still meant something then.
“EXPLODING ELECTRIC BICYCLES
Powerline ^ | October 4,2022 | JOHN HINDERAKER”
HINDE....RAKER.........
HE’S THE ONE.......
THE ONE WHO RAKES YOUR HINDE.......
IT BLOWS YOUR MINDE.......
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