Electric Car Fire

[Big_John]

4 hours ago, dmthamade said:

In Toronto Canada, they recently banned Electric bycycles form the transit system(subways) in winter due to the batteries on some not being sealed from salt/enviromental concerns, have had fires on the underground trains due to the batteries catching fire.

 

Don

They have a bunch of rental electric bikes around here (Syracuse, NY) and I see them left just about everywhere when I'm in town.  I don't pay much attention as I'm outside  the city in the country.  I would think they would have the same problem... Or just some clown even trying to ride one in a snow  storm could get themselves killed. We were averaging 10 feet of snow a year, but that's been a bit less the last few years.  

[Joe Handley]

On 12/12/2024 at 2:31 PM, JollySipper said:

One of the neighbors here has a Leaf....... She leaves it plugged in day and night, while it's raining even! I would not want to pay her electric bill.........

 

It should turn the charging part off or maybe go to a trickle charge mode, shouldn’t just keep dumping juice at a set rate until being unplugged.

[slusher]

I was at Lowe’s and I saw an E bike and it was almost a thousand dollars..  saw an electric law tractor over 4 thousand it was a Craftman mower..