E-bike battery fires pose a deadly problem
, can spontaneously explode, and the U.S. is being flooded with e-bikes and scooters. And there’s no easy fix, the story says, for this expanding problem.Safety standards for these and related products, author Caroline Mimbs Nyce points out, are pending but are currently hit-or-miss, or nonexistent.
“For the foreseeable future,” she writes,”more e-bikes will explode, and more people may die. 'That’s the simple and horrifying truth right now,' William Wallace, the associate director for safety policy at, told me. Unfortunately, when it comes to e-bikes and the like, we are stuck in a kind of battery purgatory.”
Because of its residential density, New York City is particularly susceptible to battery fires that spread quickly. “But as e-bikes and e-scooters have taken off across the country, fires have been reported in other places, too, such as Virginia, Colorado, and Washington. Abroad, the
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