On Wednesday,web developer Rick Bross was faced an unusual problem. His electric skateboard’s battery malfunctioned, filling his entire apartment with smoke and scaring the hell out of his roommate. The incident was just one of two recent cases involving Boosted Boards, or a brand of electric skateboards,where the batteries spontaneously “vented,” a non-technical term used by the company to recount an electrical engineering problem also known as thermal runaway that causes batteries to overheat and potentially explode.
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Source: gawker.com