Fire crews were called to Sutton station after an e-bike burst into flames on the platform.
The e-bike had been bought four months prior on an online marketplace.
Although the incident happened during rush hour, no injuries were reported.
According to London Fire Brigade, e-bike and e-scooter fires are the fastest growing fire trend in London.
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30 Comments
The joy of Lithium-Iron batteries. This problem isn't going to go away with electric cars and bikes, etc. all using this type of battery.
Sees one clip "ban them all" 🤡🤡🤡🤡
Regular, mechanical bicycles, please.
The onward 'progressive' march 'as long as it's progress' can go to hell.
And here I was thinking that the Wicked Witch of the West was going to make a stage entrance.
This phenomenon is not limited to London or the UK. It's happening all over the world.
Chinese quality and reliability never fails to cause disaster.
E-magine when everything goes E there will be serious problems worldwide.
this liberal pipe dream is just beginning to show it's inherent failure. what a tragic waste of money
All the lithium batteries with dangerous cells should be banned from any use. Not just from using in EV-s, but from phones, tablets, laptops, tools. There are much safer cells than these.
Britain was well known for strict health and safety rules, I suppose that is now history
We better get used to this.
Time for sodium ion
The perfect meme against EVs.
Lithium-ion overheats faster in EV's or things like this. Eventually the battery tech will get better. But many companies choose to cut safety and security in exchange for higher profits and sales.
What was the part that flew off the back in the explosion at 0:17? Good job the platform was clear.
Wonder what is making these things explode like that. Seeing a lot of odd explosions these days; cars bikes houses.
Safe and effective.
"an online marketplace" is helping no one. Name and shame
Those random projectiles, including one literally flying along the platform, are easily the scariest part of this footage. It's a miracle nobody was seriously injured.
Crazy to think… if a small lithium battery can melt a man's leg on a plane… 10x the size of those will detonate like this… imagine the kind of explosions we're going to see from car batteries :
How do they let the customer that their food is late in this scenario….
Why was it in the middle of the platform? Set up or terrorism?
Dint buy bikes from AliExpress.. simple easy solutions
These videos are for our lovely EV-advocates all around the world !
Better get used to this, this is future
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Im so glad to see some versatile solutions to modern living.
Lithium ion batteries
Geez just think about having one of those parked in the garage at the house.
Some one gets an e-bike and then ends up losing the home because it self destructed in flames.
As long as it is an EV thing, its all well and good.. eh…. not!!😒👎