Does this truly represent the overall safety of a product which more and more countries are pushing people towards as a way of reducing car use? So how often do electric bike and scooter batteries self combust? One day you're joyously riding it to work and the next it's burning down your home. With the number of electric bike and scooter fires in the news at the moment, you'd be forgiven for thinking that each one is a ticking time bomb. In this article, Ben Mowbray of E-Bikeshop gives us the lowdown on battery safety and what distinguishes a safe battery from one that is a fire hazard. While the campaign warns of batteries and chargers that do not meet UK safety standards as well as the dangers of sourcing replacements online, this is broad advice and therefore does not necessarily reassure. We’ve reported on a number of e-bike battery fires in recent times, many off the back off London Fire Brigade’s Charge Safe campaign which was launched in response to rising numbers of e-bike and e-scooter fires in the capital.
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