Electric buses have a battery from a probably reputable supplier, with a decent BMS.

Escooters often come from AliExpress.

There is a difference.

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People used to say the same about cellphones.

I remember one episode where a girl in the bus was texting and some old lady got up to tell her that "it will go into the engine". The old lady was terrified.

My city bans bikes from buses because of the space they take up. Scooters and folding bikes are ok only if they're folded up small enough not to be obstructive.

The really shitty thing is that bikes are allowed on trains. But if the trains are unavailable and get replaced by a rail replacement bus...because it's a bus, you can't take your bike.

in defense of the bus, the battery pack in the bus is likely heat shielded and isolated to prevent fires from being a massive risk.

I cannot have my own nuclear reactor, but the state can build nuclear power plants, wheres the fairness, wheres the freedom

Tbf the manufacturing standards for plenty of e-scooters and -bikes can be pretty iffy sometimes, and people abuse them in ways that can increase the likelihood of issues. I concede that the vast majority of electric personal transportation devices that go up in flames usually happens during charging. A public transportation bus has to meet higher standards than a mono wheel scooter off of AliExpress.

(Imo they should be allowed on, but I can see the point in not doing so)

Meanwhile, TSA: no water bottle for you. Bring a cell phone, laptop battery, and a spare 20,000 mAh backup battery (of dodgy provenance no less)? Sure no problem.

Slight difference in build quality, wouldn't you say?

Me with an e-scooter charging at home:

Assumably the bus company would be buying the bus from a company with better quality control then the Chinese ones. There were some knockoffs "hover boards" that catch on fire and that Chinese bus fire.

Battery Management Systems aren't some new, developing technology. We know how to safely manage Lithium battery, it's just the certain manufactures are cheaping out on the battery packs and BMS. People didn't all stop using their phones because of the Note7 fires. People didn't stop driving cars because of the Ford Pinto. They need to get over their EV fears and be more discerning

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Cheap eBike batteries have and do set on fire though. Sounds pretty terrifying.

In Northern Ireland during the Troubles, people put (time)bombs on busses and when the bus driver heard about it, he just went and lifted it off the bus and put it in a ditch at the side of the road and informed the police. Couldn't be bothered with evacuating the bus in the middle of nowhere.

Electric busses not always have batteries, they're also busses that connect directly to the power source like trolies