Electric scooters may seem climate-friendly since they don’t belch tailpipe emissions like cars, but riding a scooter typically has a fairly high carbon footprint. One recent study that tallied up the ...

A blaze that erupted in an East Harlem apartment in New York City, killing a 5-year-old girl and a 36-year-old woman, was sparked by lithium ion batteries from an e-bike or scooter, fire marshals said ...

City and FDNY inspectors shut down a Queens scooter business that was building dozens of fire-prone lithium-ion batteries — and not a moment too soon, as the batteries began to ignite as firefighters ...

As electric bikes continue to grow in popularity, so has the number of battery fires, some of which are fatal. This past weekend, an e-bike sparked a massive, hours-long blaze that destroyed a Bronx ...

An electric scooter battery exploded Monday morning, causing a fire at a Northwest Portland apartment complex, Portland Fire & Rescue said. Firefighters quickly put out the fire with a handheld water ...

The emergency service have issued pre-Christmas warnings about the risks of e-scooters. Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue ...

Uber launched its Jump scooter rental service in October, with Xiaomi delivering the actual scooters that are one tap away if available in your city. But Uber has partnered with a different company ...

Gogoro is one of the global leaders in electric scooter innovation, despite not expanding outside of its native Taiwan. But as slick as its 90 km/h (55 mph) seated electric scooters are, the Gogoro ...

(WHTM)– Sublue is recalling more than 40,000 underwater scooter batteries due to a fire hazard, according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission. The CPSC says the lithium-ion batteries can ...

The East Harlem blaze that killed a 5-year-old girl and her father’s girlfriend – as well as three dogs – was sparked by lithium-ion batteries on an e-scooter or e-bike, fire officials said. The ...