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E-bikes banned from all government buildings due to perceived fire risk

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Alex Bowden

Alex has been editor of ebiketips since 2021. He previously contributed news, reviews and more to road.cc and has also had a parallel (largely lapsed) career writing about cricket for various publications.

5 comments

1 week 5 days ago

According to google, it costs about 14p to fully charge a 500Wh battery.  They'd get laughed out of court for trying to prosecute someone for theft for that.

1 week 6 days ago

Does this mean that the next stage in the GPA's regulations will be to stop all government employees from taking mobile phones, tablets, earbuds, rechargeable desk fans, etc., into work and will have to store them in fireproof lockers outside? What about the EVs that currently use the car park? Oops, often petrol cars go on fire too, "Remove them from the premises!" It's getting bloody ridiculous. 😒

2 weeks 38 min ago

How many parked ebikes that weren't plugged have spontaneously combusted in car parks? Guessing the number has to be pretty close to 0. A ban on charging might make sense, a ban on just locking them up doesn't.

2 weeks 21 hours ago

As to e-scooters, you shouldn't be parking the hire-scooters at work, or taking them on public transport. The rest of them are illegal anyway, so it's a fair cop.

2 weeks 21 hours ago

It's all very well having a desirable e-bike from a reputable brand. However there is no telling whether you are the - ahem - second owner, unaccountably without the use of the originally supplied charger. How is the facilities manager to know?

As to the ban on charging on-premises, this seems to be slanted as a stop on people freeloading on three employer's electric bill.