Posted on 07/02/2023 6:19:59 AM PDT by devane617
The latest city scourge strikes without warning, its helpless victims left to die behind an impenetrable wall of fast-moving flames and thick smoke.
New York’s ubiquitous and deadly e-bike batteries have killed 13 residents in a rash of raging fires over the last six months, leaving relatives of the dead mourning their losses while calling for answers from city officials.
The pain remains fresh for Queens dad Salah Abdulsamed after losing his son and daughter in a horrific April blaze at their home. And he hopes something will be to done to spare other families from the same crushing fate.
“I keep hoping they’re going to come back, but they’re not,” he said of his kids. “It’s devastating ... These things are very, very dangerous, and you don’t know how dangerous they are until this happens to you.”
The year’s first deadly blaze in January killed an elderly woman inside a three-story Queens home, with at least one victim per month lost across the first half of 2023, officials said.
The latest blaze in the literal explosions of death and destruction came just after midnight on June 20 inside a six-story Chinatown building, with four residents killed when a lithium-ion battery inside a first-floor e-bike repair shop went up in flames.
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Bttt
“Queens dad Salah Abdulsamed.”
And as the batteries age, they become even more prone to failure.
Living above an e bike repair shop.
Funny, isn’t it, that we never had this problem when bikes only had pedals. Maybe that’s where the solution lies.
I’m guessing there are NO rules/regulations for Electric vehicles ,if there were we would never see them
And as the batteries age, they become even more prone to failure.
This is true but according to our politicians we can just take the old EV batteries and place them in metal boxes to store all the solar and wind power......
Unreal. The ignorance about these things is overwhelming.
It is fair to say that we are miles behind in dealing with the problems of lithium ion batteries and given the exponential growth in usage it will continue to get worse every year.
so, this is actually interesting thought to consider.
What we have is a battery full of chemical energy stored in a compact form enough to be equal to a tank of gasoline. It is going to emit that energy when compromised. It’s dangerous when it emits violently as happens all of the time. It’s more of that same thing that’s happening in Canada. They allow otherwise controllable technology, conditions and situations to become combustible either by design, or by design of negligence. This is the underlayment of the communists playbook to cover their destructive tracks with a fig leaf of deniability.
𝘍𝘶𝘯𝘯𝘺, 𝘪𝘴𝘯’𝘵 𝘪𝘵, 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘦 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘣𝘭𝘦𝘮 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘣𝘪𝘬𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘱𝘦𝘥𝘢𝘭𝘴. 𝘔𝘢𝘺𝘣𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵’𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘭𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘴.
I know a woman who’s too good for a bicycle. She’s reliant on public transportation, and Uber (which she bitches incessantly about paying for). I dared to suggest she purchase a bicycle and got a laundry list of excuses as to why she can’t/won’t get one, too inconvenient for her. She’s also about 5’3, complains she bloated up to 180 lbs, and tries to blow smoke up my ass about how she’s going to hit the gym hard core and lose the weight.
Apologies if I bent your ear a little too far.
These idiots want to build massive “battery farms” all over the country to supplement their green energy schemes. How would you like to have one of those in your neighborhood?
What our generous, loving, forward-thinking elites want for us. 🙄
One would think that any product with this burning potential would not be legal to keep selling to more customers. It make take a few Class Action lawsuits by the surviving family to teach manufacturers this lesson.
Said manufacturers are all in China. Good luck with collecting even if you win.
NY City is fairly flat, just OUTLAW the e-bikes and be done with it.
Fire proof boxes for batteries when not in use?
I’m waiting for the first EV parked in a garage underneath some fancy hotel to self combust. It’s inevitable.
“One would think that any product with this burning potential would not be legal to keep selling to more customers. It make take a few Class Action lawsuits by the surviving family to teach manufacturers this lesson.”
I have a story for you from my time living in Chicago in 1970 and 1971. At the time I lived in a one bedroom apartment in a building of the style called 4+1. That meant the lowest level was a garage for the tenants’ cars and the upper four levels were apartments, mostly one and two-bedroom. Being located near a CTA station and only about four blocks from the lake, it was a nice place to live. I had a 10 speed bicycle that I stored in my apartment, as many other tenants did with their bicycles.
Now, fast-forward to 2023 and imagine a similar building, also occupied mostly by young professionals, many of whom will have Ebikes by instead of pedal bikes. It’s not hard at all to imagine numerous horrific fires originating from those individuals charging their bikes’ lithium batteries. I suspect lots of landlords in similar situations are going to include lease causes that prohibit storage of Ebikes. Also, I suspect the insurers of those landlords are going to be putting causes in the insurance that require the landlords to prohibit Ebikes. Further, I suspect the lenders who finance such apartments will be equally anxious to prohibit such dangerous possessions. In other words, not much good for the Ebike industry.
“But Blitz has filed for bankruptcy and will shut its doors at the end of the month. Why? Because it can no longer afford product liability insurance, Marketplace’s Sally Herships reports.”
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