DoomsdaysCW · @DoomsdaysCW
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"E-bikes have been in the news recently for a reason nobody wants: Their batteries are sparking dangerous fires. One conflagration burned down homes and businesses in the Bronx, in New York City, in March, and another blaze at an e-bike store in Manhattan killed four people in June. Those fires are bringing additional scrutiny and regulation to a mode of transportation that’s been hailed as a promising climate solution. But they are also having an unexpected impact on conversations about the right to repair a bicycle, something generations of bicycle owners have taken for granted.

"In recent months, People for Bikes, the national trade organization representing bicycle manufacturers, has reached out to lawmakers and officials in several states to request that e-bikes be exempted from right-to-repair bills. Those bills aim to make it easier for members of the public to access the parts, tools, and information they need to fix their stuff. The industry claims it’s a matter of safety, and that people without the proper training should not attempt to repair e-bikes — especially not the batteries. Instead, manufacturers want to see dead and broken batteries recycled, which is why they recently launched a public education campaign encouraging consumers to do so.

"Recycling is a crucial step for dealing with battery waste sustainably. It keeps batteries out of landfills and it can reduce the need for additional mining of critical battery metals like lithium, cobalt, and nickel. But for the e-bike industry to be sustainable over the long term, e-bikes also need to be repairable, since repair prevents waste and conserves the resources that go into making new stuff. To right-to-repair advocates, the claim that it’s unsafe for consumers to fix them is familiar: Consumer tech companies like Apple have said the same thing about repairing smartphones for years. When it comes to e-bikes, advocates worry that safe battery handling is being used to distract from another problem they say right-to-repair would help solve: Cheap, hard-to-repair e-bikes are flooding into cities around the country. These are the same bikes that sometimes have substandard batteries that experts suspect are at the root of the fire crisis."

#RightToRepair #bicycles #ebikes #Lithiumbatteries

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DoomsdaysCW · @DoomsdaysCW
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Fire aboard cargo ship in Atlantic Ocean may have been intensified by electric-vehicle batteries from luxury cars like Porsches and Bentley

by Natalie Musumeci, Feb 21, 2022

- The fire on a cargo ship hauling luxury cars may have been intensified by the batteries in the electric vehicles on board.

- The Felicity Ace — which is carrying some 4,000 cars — caught fire in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean last week.

- A port official told Reuters that lithium-ion batteries in the electric cars were "keeping the fire alive."

businessinsider.com/cargo-ship

#Lithiumbatteries #lithium #cargoshipfire #cargofire #luxurycars

Last updated 1 year ago

DoomsdaysCW · @DoomsdaysCW
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I wonder if this is what happened with regards to the in .

What's being done to solve the problem of exploding Batteries on cargo ships

By Wailin Wong, Darian Woods, April 7, 2023

npr.org/2023/04/07/1168581788/

#cargofire #newjersey #cargoshipfire #Lithiumbatteries #lithium

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Just a Spoonful of Sugar Makes the Lithium GET DOWN!

Breakthrough Lithium Battery technology - USING SUGAR - is creating dramatic increases in the storage capacity (2x-5x!) of Lithium batteries. youtube.com/watch?v=Sq5Bpo5XOv

#news #ev #batteries #dNews #Lithiumbatteries #dtech #tech

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