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My apartment building in NYC just banned all "lithium powered vehicles" (bicycles, scooters, etc). Building insurance is getting more expensive, and some insure
by ploxiln 3y ago
My apartment building in NYC just banned all "lithium powered vehicles" (bicycles, scooters, etc). Building insurance is getting more expensive, and some insurers are pulling out of the NYC market altogether, because too many buildings are catching on fire due to Li-Ion battery packs ... it's always a bunch of cheap beat-up delivery bike batteries charging in a pile in some apartment, "unauthorized repair shop" or similar.
I'm kinda annoyed that this has been simplified to "no electric bikes/scooters/skateboards/anything anywhere on the property". Not all battery packs are the same ...
- jacquesm 3y agoIt's a coarse filter but they don't really have much choice, otherwise it would become such a nightmare of rules and subrules besides the inability to inspect quickly for violations. I keep my Lithium Ion based packs in a detached garage just to be on the safe side and I'd never bring them into the house, not even for storage. Besides the laptops and the phones :(