Category: battery fire

E-Bike Battery Explodes, Injuring Resident in San Diego Apartment

April 2, 2023
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SAN DIEGO—A resident of a Barrio Logan apartment was burned and hospitalized after a fire apparently caused when an e-bike battery ignited and exploded April 2. The fire started in the 2900 block of Boston Avenue at 6:09 a.m. Sunday when a couple was charging their electric bike in the living room, according to Deputy…

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Ford Suspends Production of F-150 Lightning EV for Additional Week After Battery Fire

February 26, 2023
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Ford Motor Co. will halt on F-150 Lightning production until the end of next week following a battery problem that caused an EV truck to catch fire during a pre-delivery check, the company said on Friday. “The teams worked quickly to identify the root cause of the issue,” Ford spokesperson Emma Bergg said in a statement…

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Community Support Swamps Port Jervis Family After House Fire

August 24, 2022
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Boxes of diapers, school supplies, and toys keep piling up at Briana Austin’s grandmother’s house in Port Jervis. People who know the Austin family and strangers from as far as Monroe stopped by to deliver words of comfort and money. Briana’s two younger children, 4-year-old Weston and 2-year-old Autumn, are running around the house, toys…

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Exploding Batteries Expose Green Energy’s Hypocrisy and Greed

April 29, 2022
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Commentary Community Choice Energy agencies are failing to disclose flaws about the lynchpin of their entire business model: batteries. Batteries supposedly make intermittent renewable energy—wind and solar—fully viable. However, the record of battery meltdowns and fires is ignored in favor of profits and false claims about “clean” energy. The public deserves far better transparency from…

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