What It Takes for an E-Bike Battery to Explode

21 Feb 2023 | Abstracted from Slate

The problem is that as the popularity of e-bikes soars, more and more people are relying on batteries without protections...some [ebike battery] manufacturers use very thin separators, much thinner than what UL recommends, because if very thin separators are used, more electrodes can be fit in the extra space to provide higher capacity...the cells have a much higher chance of having some safety hazards due to physical touching of electrodes"

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