Commuter diaries

@ROOTminus1 apparently they never ever do and if they did it is by definition your fault, for which the post office may pursue prosecutions. At least, those are the rumours I heard.

@chrisonabike Does the "Post Office" approach also have a carte-blanche pass on any Fujitsu products no matter if they are demonstrably defective and having life-altering impacts on hundreds of people?

The world has gone mad, smoke and mirrors here, it's The Emperors new clothes all over again with this tent. £530?! Seriously? For a bit of woven nylon and earths most abundant metal?! I cannot believe this hasn't already drawn more scathing comments. Big Agnes if anyone buys one of these they're an utter mug and you are completing the heist of the epoch. Everybody get real FFS. This is on parr with £400 cycling clogs, ridiculous content. April 1st was a few months back.

The bike ones are bigger - although not necessarily wildly so. Just checked what you can get with the Tern GSD and there are 3-500Wh. Comparing strawberries and apples I was looking at airlines restrictions. Things vary but BA says lithium-ion batteries of 100 - 160Wh are allowed but you have to declare them, greater than that, no. (Unless it's in your wheelchair and stays in it). Perhaps they could take a "Post Office" approach and just ban ones that look "suspect" eg. covered in tape with wires sticking out?

Fact.

The van fire that closed the a31 and burnt a square km of the new forest must have been an ice, if it was an electric van we wouldn't have heard the end of it. And the Luton multi storey car park fire. All li ion batteries have a risk of combusting, damage makes it more likely, and charging even more. Especially with iffy chargers. Charging points for phones, laptops and tablets on most trains these days, and buses? TfL banned ebikes a while back, it was only going to spread. GWR were meant to have banned dodgy ebikes, though I haven't seen that being enforced. Have seen people being removed for escooters though, and got round the ban by folding and placing in a bin liner.

Laptop computers and mobile phones have lithium batteries, so they will have to ban them as well.

The rest in orange?...

Nonsense based on misinformation. Petrol and diesel cars are significantly more likely to catch fire than an EAPC from a reputable brand. Are you proposing on banning them from station car parks too?

If this is the case, I wonder why I can even buy an ebike battery, bring it into my home, take it to public places, take it in my hand luggage when I fly,.. Looking forward to reading a proper risk assessment, informed by science.