Yes, yes it is.
Make sure to buy plenty of spares and stack them in your garage for safe-keeping..
But it works so well in the movies!
Four died overnight while trying to save ... bicycles? Or, sleeping on the job and not aware of the fire?
After an airplane crash in the fifties where the 100 percent of deaths made no sense, the FAA discovered the actual cause. A small fire had spread smoke into the cabin. The materials burning formed a poisonous gas, even a tiny bit of which caused instant paralysis. Since then, materials used in cars and planes could not be made of substances that, when burned, caused poison gases. A limo fire in California contained those aftermarket upholstery materials and only the driver, in his separate compartment, got out when a dropped cigarette caused a small fire killing the three passengers.
Our homes and businesses contain these common plastics that, when burned, can cause paralysis. That may or may not have been involved here, but it’s something to think about.
Why is the group that is out to kill and destroy pushing electric vehicles. I think we have the answer.
There are huge variations in the quality of e-bike batteries.
Cheap Chinese cells and poor Chinese assembly, crappy battery management electronics, and also batteries which have been dropped or crashed or otherwise damaged are all potential hazards.
A e-bike shop in Chinatown is just where you expect something to eventually explode into flames. And when they burn they are near impossible to put out.
I have two e-bike batteries, although Chinese made they are from a reputable manufacturer, have a good control system, and use Korean (Samsung) cells.
I still only charge/keep then in the garage and I don’t bring them in the house.
Looking forward to lithium ion powered airplanes!
They go zipping down the bike lanes of Manhattan, sometimes the wrong direction, so now pedestrians have to be more careful crossing one way streets. Some of them even get up on the sidewalks.
I walk across the Queensboro bridge frequently to get to my Long Island City office and the pedestrian lane is only a few feet wide. It was okay sharing the lane with bicycles but these e-Bikes can get up to 30 mph and they pass within inches of you.
I'm surprise there are not more accidents involving pedestrians with those things.
THEMAGISTERIM YouTube Channel has this fire covered. The pile of burned ebikes and scooters they removed was huge. The ebike shop was under a 4 story apartment who are now all homeless.
but green transportation or something, save the Earth capt’n planet
I’m curious. There are a lot of lithium battery drones lost in trees and forests. Will those batteries eventually crack open and catch fire?