UK firefighters called to one lithium-ion battery fire every five hours

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• reddig33@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  • CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There’s a terrible influx of badly made cells and battery packs of all shapes it seems. There needs to be more regulation.

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  • danielquinn@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m not surprised. Have you seen what they’re charging for the batteries? We had to buy a new one for our e-bike and it came to about £600. Just for the battery.

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  • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Looks like the bulk of these is caused by cheap poorly made ebikes

    then you quote only nearly a third. Hardly the bulk.

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• SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There were 18,494 vehicle fires in the UK from March 2024 - March 2025.

  That’s two every hour.

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