• Showroom7561@lemmy.ca
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    4 days ago

    To play devil’s advocate:

    Do you have a clothes dryer in your home? A stove/oven, rice cooker, air frier, oil fryer, etc?

    Those cause more house fires than anything else. E-scooter house fires are extremely rare, and usually only as a result of using non-certified batteries and chargers.

    It’s almost unheard of to have a UL certified e-scooter or ebike catch fire.

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      4 days ago

      The problem is that non-CSA approved batteries and chargers are being sold in Canada with absolutely no regulation.

      If you look at fires per unit sold the scooters and bikes are probably an order of magnitude higher than stoves and dryers.

      • N-E-N@lemmy.ca
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        4 days ago

        Sounds like you have nothing against escooters, you just have an issue with under-regulation for battery safety