Footage released by the London Fire Brigade shows the moment yet another e-bike spontaneously catches fire and explodes. The Telegraph reports that the incident, which took place at a block of flats in Roehampton last week, “occurred after the bike’s lithium battery went into thermal runaway and erupted into flames”.
The video shows the bike producing a highly flammable and toxic vapour cloud, before igniting in a fireball a second later.
Avi Gooransingh, 29, the owner of the bike, said he was “shaken up” by the incident and will not have another e-bike in his home again.
Spontaneous combustion is a known problem with electric vehicle batteries, which, while rare, is somewhat catastrophic when it happens.
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Some idiot shot past me on a pavement at something like 40mph the other day on one of those things. And once the hot weather comes in, think about all those e-bikes, e-scooters and electric cars that will catch fire, not because of the manmade ‘climate change’ fantasy, but because they can’t take shifts in temperature…
e-Bikes and e-Cars are an obnoxious (and noxious) fad, kept going by idiotic governments.
True! how many e-bikes end up in the canal?
‘In 2019, Tesla vehicles had a lesser chance of catching fire than internal combustion engine vehicles, with a rate of 1 fire for every 175 million miles driven in Teslas compared to 1 fire for every 19 million miles driven in ICE cars.’
https://blog.gitnux.com/tesla-car-fire-statistics/
Teslas (one brand) can’t drive very far without breaks to recharge. It’s a useless comparison until Teslas can drive further. As I recall, it was stationary electronic cars that were catching fire.
And buses. And then the bus next to the bus that caught fire. The the bus next to that one. Then the bus next to that one….
Got it yet? See here. Use images tab.
https://www.startpage.com/do/search?q=electric+ev+buses+burst+into+fire&segment=startpage.brave
How do they know ? Tesla,s only travel a few hundred miles before needing a recharge ! If they have done 175 mill think of the earths raped resources to make them @ little African kid’s scrabbling in mines to get it all out ! Emission Free !! Do me a favour
Ah but, new battery technology is a whisker away! It has been since the early 90s!
Yep!. the 1890’s.
That maybe true but in reality, how many evs are there on the road compared to ice vehicles!? Your so called facts are supposition, averages, computer models not reality! Walk in those shoes for over a century like ice cars have, then we will know! And thank you for voicesing your opinion, many just downtick and run but your a proper debater!
Included in these statistics are extremely old cars and trucks, all over the world. The analysis to which you refer is disingenuous at best.
When the age of the vehicle, mileage driven and time on the road is taken into account, BEVs are at least two orders of magnitude worse – absolutely terrible. And when they start burning they are almost impossible to put out.
This needs to be unpacked and explored!
I could go on, but these questions will do for starters. And there are many other issues that can be addressed other than fire.
Indeed, and many Tesla owners are completely paid up Branch Elonians who will never dare give the slightest impression to anyone that everything is anything other than fantastic in Teslalaland – so a lot of the news of the less serious breakdowns and problems with their wonder vehicles are kept quiet/stifled by the victims themselves!
That’s not the point. An ICE fire can be put out with a fire extinguisher – you need a lake to put out an EV fire.
Asking for another Grenfell!
Well, at least we’re saving the planet so it must be worth it?!
Oh, and don’t forget to park your ev 30m or more from any structures! (manufactures advice!) Funny, they never said that about ICE vehicles and there full of petrol! Go figure
Not the only video released by the Fire Brigade: –
https://news.sky.com/video/e-scooter-fire-engulfs-kitchen-in-seconds-12883346
Infernal machines!
Save the planet, y’all.
People don’t realise how energy dense lithium-ion batteries are. Fully charged, the battery in a Tesla Model 3 has about the same amount of energy as 12 litres of petrol. Inside these batteries are a series of plates separated by a dielectric; if these plates touch—which can happen when they’re deformed (as in a crash), pierced (as in a crash), or overcharged (by using the wrong charger)—all of that energy can be released almost instantly. Imagine the fireball that’d result from pouring 12 litres of petrol thinly over a large area and lighting it. Now imagine squeezing that fireball down and directing it out a (comparatively) small hole somewhere under your seat. Worse still, lithium battery fires are near impossible to put out. If you’re in a nasty crash and the battery gets dinged, it doesn’t matter how good the crumple zones and airbags are: if you can’t get out quickly you’re getting cremated. You won’t catch me riding one of these things at 70mph down the M6 I can assure you.
Martin Tripp blew the whistle on Tesla’s terribly unsafe battery manufacturing process. The result? Elon Musk had him arrested, pretending that Martin was a gun-toting terrorist.
If this was any other manufacturer, all their cars would have been taken off the road already. But Elon is savin da planet, so he gets a free pass.
There have been many, many other problems with Teslas, any single one of which would have destroyed any other car manufacturer’s reputation and business.
Whompy wheels from woefully under-strength suspension arms and struts. Touchscreens which cease to function because they aren’t designed for hot temperatures found in cars parked in the sun (bad when almost everything is controlled through the touchscreen). Passenger doors which can’t be opened from inside or out, especially during crashes. Firemen have literally watched, helpless, as people have burned alive inside.
What does the mainstream media have to say about any of this? Nada.
And don’t get me started on “Autopilot”.
Also do not forget that the fumes given off by the burning batteries is highly and deadly toxic. This is what scares firefighters the most about these fires.
It just needs a nozzle mounted on a gimble, with a joystick on the handlebars, to direct the explosion to the rear. I reckon you could get 40 – 50 mph out of it for a useful distance.
More of this please – to stop this lunacy.