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Everyone…. We’ve all seen videos of eBike batteries bursting into flames. So, I’m doing a study on the safety of eBike batteries while charging, when in use and sitting in storage. That’s why I want to know how many of you already have one or more ebikes. And if not, do you plan to purchase one in 2023? Most importantly, if you’ve experienced an eBike battery fire I REALLY want to know about it. Please take this poll and leave a comment.
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Both my son and I have had an e-Bike for three years without any battery issues.
We both enclose our batteries in lipo-rated fireproof bags while charging and storing for the following reason:
I used to fly RC Airplanes as did several of my friends while staying at an RV park in AZ. One afternoon my neighbor across the street came running out of his RV yelling "does anyone have a fire extinguisher".
I grabbed my extinguisher and ran outside to meet him and saw smoke rolling out the front door of his RV. In the front entry of his RV, he was charging one of the lipo batteries used in our airplanes and it must have shorted out. There were continuous explosions and flames spreading as the battery was in full thermal runaway. His wife was trapped at the back of their RV. I was able to extinguish the fire in less than a minute with multiple short burst of my dry-power extinguisher and the entire event lasted less than 90 seconds, only because that tiny battery had finally burned itself up. He and his wife were fine. All of the dash board electronics and wiring plus the front flooring of the RV had to be replaced at a cost of over $30,000. That was a tiny battery compared to our e-Bike batteries. I dread to think of the fire that could occur from our much larger e-Bike batteries. I should mention that I was a professional firefighter for three years in my early 20's and the training I had received really kicked in when faced with this event. For someone not prepared, any fire, especially an exploding battery could be quite intimidating. Here is a link to the battery bag that my son and I use: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09Q6FPGZ5/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
I've had my Ebike with a Bosch Performance CX mid-drive and 500w battery since 2019. I am now 72 yrs old and ride it most days. (We are fulltimers and snowbirds who love to boondock). The battery is labeled Bosch but it may utilize Samsung cells packaged in the Bosch casing.. I use all 4 modes but touring mostly. On steep Mountain terrain a get about 20 to 30 miles on a charge. On flat, paved city bike paths an easy 80 miles using mainly Eco and Tour modes. Just for your statistics I've traveled 860 miles on 15 charges. Most from 20% to 100%. I try to keep my battery between 20 and 80% in use and always store it in the 60 to 80% range.