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On February 5, 2025, a massive fire broke out in a historic train repair hall in Gdańsk, Poland, sending a thick black cloud of smoke over the city. The facility housed 1,500 Mevo city bikes, including 1,300 e-bikes, along with additional spare lithium-ion batteries. As the fire spread, thousands of lithium-ion cells ignited, leading to explosions and intense firefighting challenges. Over 150 firefighters battled the flames, while authorities warned residents to stay indoors due to the toxic smoke.
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Physicist here. Never try to distinguish an electric fire with water! It won't bring it down but instead is dangerous! Firemen should know it but so many times still see them using water.
People need better training about the realistic risks when working with batteries. Be more careful when handling and storing. Develop cheaper and more effective suppression systems that people will actually use. Toxic smoke isn’t good. I bought a gas mask recently.
People need better training about the realistic risks when working with batteries. Be more careful when handling and storing. Develop cheaper and more effective suppression systems that people will actually use. Toxic smoke isn’t good. I bought a gas mask recently.
We have these electric vehicles to reduce emissions. One of these fires seems to set the savings back quite a bit.
There is going to be a lot of new cancer patients who lived near that battery storage facility that was sending toxic chemicals into the air. Good luck Poland, you should sue that battery warehouse.
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Saving the planet 🤡
Different battery chemistry is needed.
Relax. An EV fire is green
Not that there are any pollution savings with electric garbage 🙄🙄🙄🙄! But how much toxic chemicals have battery fires put into the atmosphere 🤬🤬🤬🤬? I think they are making the world a worse place 🤬🤬🤬🤬!
I am in NYC and we have strict e vehicle laws no charging in hallways
It’s the new green deal, the green doesn’t mean green environment but green dollars for the likes like Greta’s handlers!!!!
We can never be ahead of the problem, because the problem has already been introduced on a global scale.
The problem being that li-ion batteries are inherently unstable and highly dangerous.
Only way to end the problem is to ban them and come up with something better, or go back to safer and reliable pre-existing technologies.
They will never let it go because along with Blockrock and the Wef it's all about control and the 15 min cities!!!!!!!!!!!
EV'S SUCK!!!!!
It just gets greener and greener
I remember when people used to pedal bikes and scooters. Never had an issue but sure, people get lazy and want to zip around magically on shotty batteries. The worst my bike has ever done is thrown a chain. Simpler times.
Yet another (Superfund?) site.
Spraying a scooter with rattle can paint is "refurbishing" it??? Doesn't seem like it was being done in any kind of spray booth either. Sketchy AF.
HOW DO YOU THINK PEOPLE WOULD REACT TO HUGE WARNING LABELS BEING PLACED ALL OVER THIER EBIKES, SCOOTERS, EVS, VACUUM CLEANERS ETC ETC? KINDA LIKE LADDERS AND A PACK OF SMOKES 🚬. CAUTION ⚠️ LION BATTERY'S IN USE, MAY CAUSE??? GO GREEN
What joke. And try and sell people on this will help the environment. You know what would have helped acknowledging greed in the 20s and stopping the gas and oil industry from putting electric car companies out of business. Look it up they did exactly what they did to Trump. Some bs paper wandr filed correctly 10 years prior to gas cars being pushed mainstream. Greed is the reason..
That smoke is extremely toxic, correct?
hey nobody was buying them so…..
This is off topic, but Monroe and Associates just dropped a video on the work UL is doing with electric vehicle fires. EV Fire Safety: Inside Research Institute.
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A LOT of these bikes use 'cheaper' internal parts, inc batteries, for a lot of them. Always make sure they are genuine LG or Samsung, as I've used both for a long time and never had a problem with either. 🙂 (Just my opinion, before anyone starts!) 🙄😎🖖
Hey Moe…
Larry's & Shemp WENT..
HIGH technology..
Call Al Gorey…* & johno Kerry's..?
It's early days.
As the batteries age It's going to get so much worse.
It wouldn't be a surprise if large packs are banned.
That'll be the end of the scam.
The smoke is friendly 😅
Is it time restrictions on max energy that can be stored on a 'site' be explored? I don't imagine any other fuel being allowed to be stored without limits. For example a petrol station is controlled and may store 45000 litres of petrol. To store the same amount of energy in a not built for purpose building, to me means there is something missing in regulations.
BAN LITHIUM ION BATTERIES!!!!!!!!!!!
Chicago Fire …1871…
Old London Fire …1666..
Modern FIRES…Currently.
You see that billowing black smoke these days, hold your breath for as long as you can and get the Hell out of the vicinity as fast as possible.
Nope
Glad we’re not polluting the environment with all those fossil fuels
Nasty
Australia lithium battery fires too
Arm chair critic, but due to the explosive nature of these battery packs, I would think that they should be treated more like an explosive. Concrete walls separating or X number of pallets. Blast walls to direct energy outside the building. Blast doors to isolate other battery storage. Deluge system using water initially, that could switch to use liquid nitrogen if water fails to extinguish the initial fire.
I would never store a cannister of gasoline inside my house or apartment. Large lithium batteries the size of a 1 liter pop bottle are just as dangerous. Store them outside in a shed
Well, the fire in Morris, Illinois was in a building that was supposed to be abandoned, so I think there will always been unscrupulous characters who will ignore whatever regulations are in place.
Holy Mother look at that cloud of toxins,Its like 10,000 smokestacks!
Electric vehicles are boondoggles, like high-speed rail.
We need battery holders and chargers to be located outside of buildings in separate lockers. But we also would need a way to have them ping to know they aren't stored inside.
It is not "Toxic Smoke" it is pure heavy metals poison and hydrochloric acid. It can't be cleaned it never goes away