People kind of got a lot of stuff twisted in their heads about electric motors always being safer than internal combustion engines -- which, sure, there's good reasons for But there's no 100% safe way to store the same amount of potential energy in the same spacehttps://twitter.com/iridienne/status/1384023067286917121 …
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But when a bunch of people started ordering hoverboards from overseas during that particular craze, with giant power packs put together by questionable small Chinese suppliers, you got spontaneous combustion all over the place
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I remember the local news trying to "find the pattern" in the outbreak of hoverboard fires and there wasn't one Sometimes they catch fire when you plug them in, sometimes when you unplug them, sometimes when you're using them, sometimes when they're just sitting there turned off
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Yup. Samsung had to recall a couple phones because of a fire problem.
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re: cracks, the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 incident from 2016 comes to mind - particularly how insistent they got about not letting you take one onto an airplane
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It's also the case that apparently a lot of auto manufacturers started out using lithium-ion batteries in their EVs but switched back to nickel-metal hydride batteries precisely because of the safety issues.
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