However, safety concerns regarding rare yet dangerous lithium-ion battery fires have put a pause on that proliferation.
Urging citizens to buy new and inferior instead of increasing safety standards?
I’m Swiss (europe) and it’s common knowledge here that chinese imported transportation devices can be russian roulette to use.
Are AGM batteries really inferior? Sure, they’re heavier, but they aren’t vulnerable to autoignition and thermal runaway. They also contain less conflict minerals than other types of batteries.
AGM are absolutely awful compared to even the absolute worst lithium batteries, and won’t last long at all if regularly cycled below even 50% SoC. LFP chemistries are a bit worse for energy density compared to NCA/NCM chemistries, but they don’t contain any nickel or cobalt, and won’t autoignite in the same way other chemistries will. Absolutely ridiculous they’re suggesting lead batteries over better lithium options.
