_haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.worksM to micromobility - Ebikes, scooters, longboards: Whatever floats your goat, this is micromobility@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agoStolen e-bike batteries could soon be worthless, if only Bosch were less greedywww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square5fedilinkarrow-up133arrow-down10cross-posted to: right2repair@discuss.tchncs.de
arrow-up133arrow-down1external-linkStolen e-bike batteries could soon be worthless, if only Bosch were less greedywww.theverge.com_haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.worksM to micromobility - Ebikes, scooters, longboards: Whatever floats your goat, this is micromobility@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square5fedilinkcross-posted to: right2repair@discuss.tchncs.de
minus-squaresevon@lemmy.kde.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·3 days agoI just hope it doesn’t turn into this: … a new digital Battery Lock function this summer that would make stolen batteries worthless to thieves looking to make a quick buck.
minus-squarederanger@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·3 days agoStolen batteries immediately short out turning them into a lithium bomb.
minus-squareSoftTeeth@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·3 days agoAnd when you buy a scooter from Craigslist and it blows your legs off you can bet your ass SCOTUS will protect the manufacturers of the RDM battery bombs.
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I just hope it doesn’t turn into this:
Stolen batteries immediately short out turning them into a lithium bomb.
And when you buy a scooter from Craigslist and it blows your legs off you can bet your ass SCOTUS will protect the manufacturers of the RDM battery bombs.