Lime blames electric scooters catching fire on bad batteries

The company responded that the defect had affected less than 0.01% of the fleet and that at-risk scooters have been recalled

It was a late night in late August when an employee at a Lime scooter facility in Tahoe, heard a loud bang. One of the bright-green rental scooters – which have meteorically swarmed streets in crowded cities around the world over the past year – had burst into flames, seemingly, all on its own.

According to a blog posted by Lime on Tuesday, nearly two months later, bad batteries were to blame. Stating that the defect had affected less than 0.01% of the “fleet”, the company conceded that a “manufacturing defect could result in the battery smoldering, or in some cases, catching fire”.

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