TFL bans competing mode of transport over “battery concerns”, continues to allow phones.
If everyone was carrying 150 phones in their pockets, they would probably ban phones as well.
That’s one of the downsides of using common battery cells like 18650 or 21700’s, you need tens if not hundreds of them in every ebike, each one being a possible point of failure.I have personal experience of this, thankfully it didn’t end up in a fire but just a dead battery pack, all because of one faulty, leaky cell out of 117.
It’s kinda sucks yeah. On one hand, people have range anxiety so manufacturer make bigger pack. On another hand, bigger pack like these have a lot of chance to fail and is heavy. I guess something need to give if people really want to take ebike on train.
But my laptop or phone which uses the same lithium batteries… Sounds like the rules are being made to benefit car manufacturers and oil companies.
