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Regarding your second point, your own source says that none of the five fires -over a two day period- were not ebike fires. You’re making it sound like no ebike has ever caught fire at all. “none of the New York fires occurring April 20 and 21 involved an e-bike“

That article also says “Now, some fires certainly originate with e-bike batteries and some e-scooter batteries are probably safe.”

To your first point, there absolutely are unsafe charging practices, such as charging immediately after coming in from the cold without letting the battery warm up, which is one reason why these fires occur most often in winter.

I’m very pro ebike, but can’t just act like they don’t have these issues…



> charging immediately after coming in from the cold

Why should this be any concern of the end user? The BMS is supposed to manage that condition.




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