I attached the UPS brochure on this. The flowcharts near the bottom are the easiest to understand.
Mikk, Thanks for linking the UPS Haz Mat flow chart. To be clear, I'm not with the Haz Mat 'Police',
but here goes. Mikk you wrote..." you can ship a 300wh battery without haz mat regulation so maybe
that's the best way to go? Still dishonest but pretty close?... " I'll start with the easy part 'pretty close'.
The Bosch 400 watt battery
is not pretty close, it's 25% above the legal haz mat limit. As for being the
"best way to go" aka shipping a haz mat battery without declaring it as such is illegal and possibly dangerous.
Should the cardboard box the battery is shipped in, while being handled, be crushed, ripped,
'speared' by a mechanical piece of equipment etc, any of these actions increases the odds the battery
could become shorted or other physical damage to the cells. The possible outcome could be a fire etc
and nowhere is there any indication that the carton contains a 400wh lithium battery.
Now the 'fun' starts assuming no one was injured....UPS traces the battery back to the shipper ( UPS is good
at tracking stuff
) and I quote...
"The maximum civil penalty has been increased from $55,000 to $75,000 for knowingly
violating federal hazardous material transportation law."
Should this fictitious damaged battery situation cause injury or death.....
" The maximum civil penalty for knowingly violating laws and regulations that result in death, serious illness,
severe injury to any person, or substantial destruction of property is increased from $110,000 to $175,000."
As for shipping a 300wh battery without haz mat regs...The Bosch batteries are labeled Powerpack 400.
admittedly a bit vague, but the actual Bosch label on the opposite side clearly lists the battery as 400wh.
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