EV batteries. Well this is interesting..yikes

CampbellH

My bike only has 3 gallons of highly flammable liquid sitting atop a very hot piece of metal, Trundling along at 60mph, avoiding big square metal boxes driven by people happy to have an explosive pillow case bolted to their steering wheel.

There was me going to give up my bike for EV for safety reasons, but I think I will stick with what I know for the moment.

Kittyfrisk

Bit of sensational news, but scary nonetheless.
"Ferocious blaze as e-bike explodes at Sutton railway station"
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-london-68744317

Reverend

Kittyfrisk said:

Bit of sensational news, but scary nonetheless.
"Ferocious blaze as e-bike explodes at Sutton railway station"
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-london-68744317

Grim. Sutton *shudders*

Tannin

99% of the problems are a direct result of shoddy batteries out of China. 

But Western so-called "economic rationalist" governments will insist to their dying day that "the market" is the one and only way to regulate anything. 

Adey

Electric cars would be great if the manufacturers could standardise a rapidly replaceable battery system so that you could just pull into an "Electric Station", pull out the nearly empty batteries, push in the new, fully charged batteries, and drive off in 5 minutes.

Having an extension lead hanging out of your 3rd floor flat window, or looking for an on-street charging point is a design dead end in my opinion.

JEM

Adey said:

Electric cars would be great if the manufacturers could standardise a rapidly replaceable battery system so that you could just pull into an "Electric Station", pull out the nearly empty batteries, push in the new, fully charged batteries, and drive off in 5 minutes.

This sort of thing perhaps?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNZy603as5w

*TLDW; A Nio electric car with automated removable battery pack.

Adey

Yep. That sort of thing.....

....but without the unnecessary computer generated voice saying "nicely done" when I have managed to display the skill needed to stop my car somewhere close to the swap station...