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by fortran77 910 days ago
I think the scooter fires are a real issue. See: https://www.npr.org/2023/03/11/1162732820/e-bike-scooter-lit...

Those batteries are handled, charged, and manufactured/repaired with much less care....

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Scooter batteries barely undergo any testing -> typical consumer product. I wish, that from oversees imported products would get safety and environmental labels. The consumers should somehow be educated. That one week after buying landfills filling cheap plastic thrash is no good for anything.

Meanwhile car battery is safety related part covered by dozens of regulations. Some YouTube channel was showing them under direct fire for minutes and they didn’t ignite. Maybe Rimac batteries, I don’t remember.

Yea, there's a ton of YOLO -level batteries in e-bikes and e-scooters.

Car manufacturers actually care about reliability, because they're usually bigger corporations with deep pockets.

Pretty much anyone with a contact in China can start "manufacturing" white-label e-scooters from the cheapest bidder. Then just shut down the corporation and disappear if any issues arise.