Ottawa residents who charge e-bikes at home may be interested in what firefighters are saying about lithium battery fires. According to CBC News, firefighters have raised alarms about hot, fast, hard-to-extinguish fires in lithium batteries. The examples it cites are e-bikes in people's homes and huge storage batteries at a P.E.I. solar farm.
CBC says it has put together an explainer on why lithium battery fires are a challenge and how to minimize the risks. That is the only detail available to us so far. CBC is the only outlet to have reported this, and fuller details have not been independently confirmed yet, so we are not adding specifics beyond what it has published.
Source: CBC News
