New York City wants lithium-ion e-bike batteries to be stopped at the border when they don’t meet national safety standards after rash of deadly fires::After a series of deadly fires.

  • fubo@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    We really need a better battery technology, one that doesn’t trivially become an incendiary device.

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      1 year ago

      There has actually been a ton of progress with this over the last decade.

      However, everything we have discovered so far either can’t hold as much energy, has really limited charge cycles, or is far too expensive to use at scale.

      • cRazi_man@lemm.ee
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        1 year ago

        Ton of progress?

        I would refer to that as “research ongoing but no progress yet”.