03-11-2016 05:43 via theverge.com

Boosted tells people to stop riding its electric skateboards after battery malfunctions

Samsung isn't the only tech company having problems with flaming batteries. Boosted, the maker of some of the better electric skateboards on the market, has warned customers to stop riding and charging its second-generation devices after two separate incidents in which lithium-ion batteries were found to have "vented" inside their enclosures.
Nobody was injured and no property was damaged in the incidents, Boosted says, but in a warning posted on its official site it requests that owners move th
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