Deadly E-Bikes: Four Explosions in New York Every Week
38 people have been injured in a New York e-Bike fire. “These bikes when they fail, they fail like a blowtorch,” said Dan Flynn, the chief fire marshal at the New York Fire Department.
A couple of bicycle groups I'm in on Facebook are specific to Electra brand "townie" bikes, some of which are electric bikes. While my "townies" are strictly people powered there are a lot of folks who have battery bikes commenting every day. I've seen some comments about failing battery's, not one has mentioned their battery catching on fire. I don't know if Electra uses a better battery or my sample size is too small but so far fires don't appear to be a thing with townies.
If you've any memory longer than the so-called 'news media', we had same issues with those stupid 'hovercraft' boards. Li batteries store lots of energy and will cheerfully dump it RFN if they feel particularly insulted. Crappy chargers and half-assed cheap overseas construction will cause drama.
A lot of the NYC E-bikes were purched for a lot of money by white Libs and stolen by boo and Latino "youths". Them flaming up is Mother Nature's way of culling the herd.
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ReplyDeleteE-bikes burn cleanly while fighting racism.
ReplyDeleteThe injured should just buck up.
Simple.
A couple of bicycle groups I'm in on Facebook are specific to Electra brand "townie" bikes, some of which are electric bikes. While my "townies" are strictly people powered there are a lot of folks who have battery bikes commenting every day. I've seen some comments about failing battery's, not one has mentioned their battery catching on fire. I don't know if Electra uses a better battery or my sample size is too small but so far fires don't appear to be a thing with townies.
ReplyDeleteIf you've any memory longer than the so-called 'news media', we had same issues with those stupid 'hovercraft' boards.
ReplyDeleteLi batteries store lots of energy and will cheerfully dump it RFN if they feel particularly insulted.
Crappy chargers and half-assed cheap overseas construction will cause drama.
Just hope they don’t decide to flame up in your garage at 0200 hours….
ReplyDeleteOh, but they have. Race cars have caught fire while traveling down the highway on trailers.
DeleteAsk Boeing how they fixed their Li battery issues in their composite 787?
DeleteA lot of the NYC E-bikes were purched for a lot of money by white Libs and stolen by boo and Latino "youths". Them flaming up is Mother Nature's way of culling the herd.
ReplyDeleteCivilization should have waited until it had a much better and safer battery technology than lithium tech..
ReplyDeleteI am curious how lithium batteries will react to an EMP event. My bet is that they will likely burst into flames.
ReplyDeleteI was pondering something along those lines also
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