Charity Electrical Safety First (ESF) have recently made public a detailed 72 page report dramatically entitled 'Battery Breakdown - Why are e-scooter and e-bike batteries exploding in people's homes and what can be done about it?' Amongst many other recommendations, some of the most noticeable and the most likely to affect readers (should they be enacted) are: The development
converted into an e bike caught fire in the hallway when its battery failed catastrophically. sophia died in the blaze. when it comes to the sale of batteries that power e scooters and e bikes, there are now calls for change. as things stand, uk manufacturers can self certify that their batteries are safe. but a report out today is calling for legally enforced independent third party regulation of safety standards, which is what happens for other high risk products such as heavy machinery, medical devices and fireworks. in new york city, where they ve had a similar spate of these types of problems, they have introduced legislation to make sure that these products have to be certified by a third party rather than being self certified by the manufacturers. and we feel that would really help if that was done in this country as well. as part of its report, the charity electrical safety first is also calling for the regulation