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Oliver Schick
Here's another report of a fire caused by a faulty battery, on an e-bike, not a scooter. With some e-bikes, the problem seem to be homemade conversions with cheap components. I've seen quite a few of those in London, although I think stock models are taking over more and more. With e-scooters, you probably get hardly any homemade conversions (at least, I've definitely not seen any), but you get a lot of cheap models that probably use similarly questionable components as the e-bike in this article.
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/ebike-thornton-heath-london-fire-brigade-battery-b968300.html
As the market becomes more established, will it go the same way as for pedal cycles, i.e. will a large number of unsafe, cheaply-componented models be the main sellers, only to be obsolete after a short time? I think most of the models you see around right now are probably like that, but I don't have any knowledge of the market.