{"id":9028,"date":"2015-12-13T01:28:42","date_gmt":"2015-12-13T06:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/?p=9028"},"modified":"2015-12-13T01:28:42","modified_gmt":"2015-12-13T06:28:42","slug":"no-way-to-distinguish-which-hoverboards-are-fire-prone-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/no-way-to-distinguish-which-hoverboards-are-fire-prone-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"No way to distinguish which hoverboards are fire prone &#8230; yet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_9029\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9029\" style=\"width: 512px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Red_self-balancing_two-wheeled_board_with_a_person_standing_on_it.png\" alt=\"red hoverboard\" width=\"512\" height=\"372\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9029\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Red_self-balancing_two-wheeled_board_with_a_person_standing_on_it.png 512w, https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Red_self-balancing_two-wheeled_board_with_a_person_standing_on_it-225x163.png 225w, https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Red_self-balancing_two-wheeled_board_with_a_person_standing_on_it-300x218.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9029\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Wikipedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>Wired tells us: the strangest thing about hoverboards is that, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2015\/12\/why-hoverboards-keep-exploding\/\">this year\u2019s most popular holiday gift keeps catching on fire<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Jay Whitacre, Professor of Materials Science &#038; Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, says that the problem doesn\u2019t have to do with these self-balancing scooters themselves, but with the quality of the batteries being used (in some)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are a lot of factories in China that now make Li-ion batteries, and the reality is that the quality and consistency of these batteries is typically not as good as what is found in top tier producers such as LG or Samsung,\u201d Whitacre says. \u201cThese are known as \u2018low cost li-ion batteries\u2019 by most in the industry\u2014they are not knockoffs or copies, but are instead just mass-manufactured cells.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With these cheap batteries, a lot of things can cause fires.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The solution is to buy a better quality hoverboard, right? but according to Prof. Whitacre, there isn&#8217;t any way yet, to know which are the better boards. Ooops. Maybe buy your loved one something else for the 2015 holidays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wired tells us: the strangest thing about hoverboards is that, &#8220;this year\u2019s most popular holiday gift keeps catching on fire.&#8221; Jay Whitacre, Professor of Materials Science &#038; Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, says that the problem doesn\u2019t have to do with these self-balancing scooters themselves, but with the quality of the batteries being used (in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/no-way-to-distinguish-which-hoverboards-are-fire-prone-yet\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;No way to distinguish which hoverboards are fire prone &#8230; yet&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,969],"tags":[2119,2208,2207],"class_list":["post-9028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all","category-howto","tag-battery","tag-fire","tag-hoverboards"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9028"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9032,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9028\/revisions\/9032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}