About three times a day, Rich Benoit gets a call to his auto shop, The Electrified Garage, from the owner of an older Tesla Model S whose car battery has begun to fail. The battery, which used to ...
New York City fire inspectors dogged the HQ E-Bike Repair shop since at least 2021 over unsafe handling of lithium-ion batteries before the deadly blaze Tuesday that killed four people in Manhattan’s ...
Battery problems rarely arrive out of nowhere. Long before a car refuses to start or a phone dies at 20 percent, small ...
An exploding lithium-ion battery in an illegal e-bike repair shop in the basement of a home in Queens sparked a huge fire that tore through the single-family house, FDNY officials said Tuesday.
The proliferation of affordable lithium batteries has made modern life convenient in a way we could only imagine in the 80s when everything was powered by squadrons of AAs, or has it? [Ian Bogost] ...
A lithium-ion battery caused the deadly blaze that killed an elderly woman living above an e-bike repair shop in Queens, FDNY and Buildings officials said Sunday. The two-alarm fire, which started on ...