battery of an electric scooter enters thermal runaway. The experiments were motivated by the severe and increasingly frequent fires that are attributed to these vehicles, particularly in New York ...

the blackened shell of what was once a sit-on electric scooter. Officials said that a faulty lithium-ion battery in the scooter had suddenly burst into flame, as captured on surveillance video.

"The prevalence and occurrence of hybrid/electric car and lithium-ion battery fires is increasing. … Lithium-ion battery fires present a severe hazard to the public and to our responders and we ...