Boosted asks house owners of its electrical skateboard to take away and return its battery pack.
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Boosted, a maker of electrical skateboards, on Thursday issued a recall for the battery packs in its second-generation boards after studies of smoke flowing from the boards.
Boosted in November urged prospects to cease utilizing and charging the boards whereas it investigated what brought about two boards’ lithium ion battery packs to start overheating and smoking. The firm mentioned Thursday it had recognized the reason for the smoking batteries.
“Our investigation concluded that the incidents were caused by a short-circuit in the battery electronics, not from venting or other issues with the lithium battery cells,” Boosted mentioned in an organization weblog put up. “The short-circuit was caused by water entering the pack during riding due to quality control issues in two areas of the manufacturing process.”
The danger posed by the extremely flammable liquid inside most lithium ion batteries has been identified for years, however the electronics business continues to make use of the flammable method as a result of the batteries are a lot smaller and lighter than less-destructive chemistries. In the previous couple of years, using lithium ion batteries has been linked to fires and spewing smoke in a slew of merchandise, together with Samsung’s now-canceled Galaxy Note 7, hoverboards and Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner.
The firm urged all house owners of its second-generation boards to take part within the recall, even when their boards look like working usually.
Boosted additionally mentioned it’s working the US Consumer Product Safety Commission and Health Canada on the voluntary recall. It went on to say that battery challenge did not produce any flame or lead to any bodily harm or property harm.
The firm weblog put up consists of directions on the best way to take away the battery pack and a hyperlink to a product return type.
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