They're in everything from e-bikes to smartphones, and they're sparking fires with deadly consequences.
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One more reason to stick to gas and avoid electric
If gasoline was discovered today, it would never make it to market.
ok boomer. let’s stop using phones and laptops while were at it. lithium is scary
@Terry Wright based on….what….
@Terry Wright Gas has a built in safety feature: it doesn’t come with its own source of oxygen. Remove oxygen and the fire stops immediately. Lithium is harder. It has to be cooled to stop the fire and that has to continue until the stored energy dissipates, which can take a while. Challenging. Hence the massive quantity of water needed to control lithium battery fires.
Charging, which can take hours, is not at room temperature.
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is difficult to burn .. so I use newspaper 📰 to help start fire’s at My fire rated pit 🧑🏿🌾
How do you dispose of the batteries?
Bring it to a local ecocentre
Throw them in the river what i do
Spontaneous combustion
imagine switching every vehicle canada to lithium battery powered.
imagine giving up when faced with adversity
Cars are regulated. Different landscape.
but every car must be battery powered by 2035 lol
18650s are designed to be in multi packs, which will protect them from water and physical damage. They are not hardened like AA or AAA so treat them well. You can get inexpensive cases to protect unused ones. Also, buy only brand names. LG, Samsung and Sony are the big names. I use primarily LG. They have served me better than Samsung as they seem to last longer and have a higher discharge rate. Getting a couple Sony next week. They have an excellent reputation and Sony has improved them over the years.
Stay away from all other brands!
It’s amazing they don’t make a protective shell you can put on it…
@Ted David Why not just put it in a massive block of metal with a layer of something better on the inside.
Ebikes are for sale all over the place. Dozens of unknown brands. I doubt very many of them are well engineered. Worse still, they compete on price in an unregulated environment.
Umm…..we just put these in our nest smoke detector……. The irony 🙄😳🔥
Sucks, sucks to suck…
Especially when it’s for a frivolous purpose. Which is my opinion of ebikes and escooters.
most ebike battery packs have battery management circuit boards and charge port fuses to protect from overcharging and voltage protection.
its those packs without BMS (and tampering by amateurs) that are causing most fires.
Is it known with certainty? I didn’t get that from this report. There will be failures even without modification.