Posted on 06/21/2023 8:01:48 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo
E-bikes and e-scooters have flooded New York City’s streets in recent years, embraced by delivery workers and commuters as an economical and efficient new way to get around. But even as the devices have become nearly ubiquitous, the batteries inside them have made New York City an epicenter for a new kind of ferocious and fast-moving fire.
These fires are “uniquely dangerous,” warned Laura Kavanagh, the city’s fire commissioner. With little or no warning, the batteries can ignite, leaving seconds for people to escape. In just three years, lithium battery fires have tied electrical fires and have surpassed blazes started by cooking and smoking for major causes of fatal fires in the city.
Across the country, over 200 micro-mobility fire or overheating incidents have been reported from 39 states, resulting in at least 19 fatalities, according to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. But the organization emphasized that the problem is particularly acute in densely populated areas like New York City. In London, lithium battery fires are the fastest-growing fire risk, with 57 e-bike fires and 13 e-scooter fires this year, according to the London Fire Brigade.
In New York, lithium battery fires have killed 13 people this year, including four people in a blaze that started in an e-bike store in Chinatown on Tuesday. A total of 23 people have died in battery fires since 2021. This year, there have been 108 fires, compared with 98 fires for the same period last year.
During the pandemic, when public transit was compromised and the demand for food deliveries skyrocketed, a ready supply of cheap e-bikes and e-scooters of questionable quality cropped up across the city.
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It became a crisis by listening to retards unschooled in physical chemistry and the laws of thermodynamics.
Easy-peasy.
And it should be Mandatory for all elected and appoint5ed officials to use E-Bikes as their main transportation to and from their respective work places.
We’re going to have to force the industry to have FSBs (fire safe batteries). Fire Safe Batteries that extinguish themselves. Perhaps they could wrap them in thick coating of fire retardant carpet glue like to they do FSCs (fire safe cigarettes).
I also wonder how many e-cars are parked in our three level basement?
Never buy a no name bike without Samsung or LG battery. Like the Chinese give a damn about low quality dangerous knock off batteries or ur safety. Probably high levels of this in Chinatown as they are more comfortable with China manufacturer knock offs
EV charging cables cut off and stolen from chargers in Oakland
https://www.ktvu.com/news/ev-charging-cables-cut-off-and-stolen-from-chargers-in-oakland
how about those little jump starters with the lithium-ion battery inside? Do they pose the same risk?
Probably theoretically, but you are probably not leaving those plugged in to charge every night like an e-bike, are you?
Lithium batteries can randomly explode for no reason at all, but that is much rarer than them exploding because they are left plugged in after they are already fully charged.
So use a regular pedal bike.
No fuel consumption there and no battery fire risk.
People are just getting too stinking lazy.
ok ... thanks for that answer ... I have 2 in my house ... I don’t keep them in the car (where they belong) in the summer because I don’t know how the heat will affect them ...
[[Winnie Hu ]]
Well now there is a name ripe for ridicule growing up lol
[[Perhaps they could wrap them in thick coating of fire retardant carpet glue like to they do FSCs]]
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Our company specifically prohibits the parking of electric vehicles in attached garages at all our apartment complexes just for this reason.
A burning camera battery sank a dive boat and killed more than a dozen people.
Lithium batteries carried onto airplanes are also a major concern.
Most do not. Most of them have a charge controller to turn off charging the built-in battery. Just like most of them have a built-in charge controller when it's used to charge another battery (i.e. your lawnmower battery). That's really the difference maker with the safety of charging a lithium battery unattended, whatever the device the battery is for (i.e. anything from a cell phone to an EV).
BUT! BUT! BUT!
I thought they followed THE SCIENCE!
thank you ...
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