They say, “So goes California so goes the Nation” - Can Cali get any stupider?
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Awesome. You can store your electric scooter in your apartment...and burn it down when the charger burns.
Safe and effective
I guarantee you that this is a non-issue.
From quick research, scooter chargers have a wattage between 24 and 120w, which is not all that different than many phone or, say, a 140w MacBook Pro charger.
With all of the electronics in homes now, and all of the simultaneous powerful charging solutions, there is basically no reason to assume that the scooter will be any more or less of a risk than any other electronic except in the event of a battery failure, which can happen on literally any product (go read some horror stories about people who have lost everything due to a battery failure in an old phone in a drawer for example).
Guarantee, eh?
Li ion batteries in scooters, bicycles etc are significantly larger than phone battery. Thermal mass gets out of control much quicker. If battery vehicle batteries aren’t an issue, why are parking garages beginning to prohibit them in some areas? Beyond the excessive weights.
We’ll see how it goes. We’re waiting for the first ones torching off homes and garages in our fire district. Will be a good show.
I've seen two phone fires since they came out. Zero scooter or bikes. One tesla on the side of the road burning. Thats about it.
Waaaiiittt for it...
Size of battery is irrelevant in regards to every day safety when charging.
Pick a reason. They could dislike EVs, weight could be a factor, or they rightfully understand that the heat and pressure from charging at up to 22kW is likely to damage the battery in some fashion, and it will cause incredible damage if the battery is compromised.
A reminder that 22kW is roughly 157 times stronger than a MacBook Pro charger. That is a huge amount of energy to store in this kind of battery, especially just shoving it in on quick charges.
Size matters. And low quality China crap will degrade and create shorting issues in a shorter timeframe.
And more people plugging low quality crap into overloaded outlets drawing higher watts is creating higher fire danger inside households and apartments.
Causing higher numbers of Li ion battery fires. Which are difficult to extinguish. Simple physics and thermodynamics.