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.
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.”