by Hannane Haddouch | May 26, 2025
Vincenza Morone, Italmatch (pinfa member) explains how flame retardants and test standards ensure electric vehicles safety. Flame retardants can reduce the fire risks resulting from battery thermal runaway, which can occur in case of battery damage (accidents),...
by Hannane Haddouch | Jan 17, 2025
Netherlands schools are banning e-bike batteries, installing fire resistant cabinets or establishing charging stations. The Netherlands fire services indicate that they are making efforts to inform schools of the fire risks of e-bike batteries, which can fill a room...
by Hannane Haddouch | Jan 17, 2025
30 experts point to new fire risks from batteries, renewable energies, green buildings and ubiquitous electronics (internet of things), accentuated by urban density and wildfire risks. Several interviews deplore the tendency over recent decades to put cost and speed...
by mcwebmaster | Oct 9, 2024
Fire services say e-bike and scooter charging probably caused several fatal fires. Insurer says battery fires up by nearly 50%. Six people died in a fire, Novi Sad, Serbia, August 2024, possibly caused by an e-scooter charging. A mother and two children died in a fire...
by mcwebmaster | Oct 9, 2024
Literature survey finds five published studies on personal mobility device (PMD) fires with 185 burn injuries. The studies from Singapore, Israel, China and France, covering burn injuries from e-bike and e-scooter fires, suggest that fires are often from unattended...
