Ebike Battery Safety: Storage and Charging at Home

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Very interesting. It's common to see negligent NYC delivery riders blamed for all the battery fires there, but the real story's probably more complicated than that.

Anyway, if you take NYC out of the stats, the odds of a battery fire seem pretty small.

New York City seems to be cleaning up it's act, but I have seen pictures of shelves of batteries on chargers where the delivery riders would leave a battery charging while making deliveries so that they could swap batteries during the day. A quality battery is expensive and these delivery people are not wealthy. I think this caused a lot of unsafe practices and situations.