UK incidents involving lithium-ion batteries, e-bikes and e-scooters, summarised in our own words with a link to the original report. We publish summaries rather than articles: at most one short quotation, named attribution, and a link so you can read the source yourself.
Items are drafted from monitored sources including Google News, London Fire Brigade, gov.uk fire statistics, OPSS product recalls and Electrical Safety First, then checked by an editor before publication. Nothing is published automatically. Items without enough of our own context are held back rather than published thin.
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If you are quoting incident numbers in a board paper or a risk assessment, be careful about which dataset you are using. London Fire Brigade’s series is the most consistent UK record available; national totals are assembled from voluntary notifications and are best read as a lower bound. The context behind both is on e-bike battery fires in the UK.