It’s not a project for most people, but watching someone ride up to 20 miles, and up to 30 mph, on tossed-out vape batteries is transfixing.

Disposable vapes are indefensible. Many, or maybe most, of them contain rechargeable lithium-ion batteries, but manufacturers prefer to sell new ones.

To make a point about how wasteful this practice is—and to also make a pretty rad project and video—Chris Doel took 130 disposable vape batteries (the bigger “3,500 puff” types with model 20400 cells) found littered at a music festival and converted them into a 48-volt, 1,500-watt e-bike battery, one that powered an e-bike with almost no pedaling more than 20 miles. You can see the whole build and watch Doel zoom along trails on his YouTube video.

  • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    19 hours ago

    It’s very normal to give businesses a short period to make arrangements/sell off stock.

    They were never going to pass a law that banned them right from that second.

    This is a good move. The damage that will continue to happen for the next 6 months or whatever is miniscule compared to the damage of just allowing it to continue indefinitely. Hopefully other countries follow suit.

    • dan@upvote.auEnglish
      1·
      7 hours ago

      It’s very normal to give businesses a short period to make arrangements/sell off stock.

      That’s why the person you’re replying to said that the stores should first be banned from ordering new ones. They could still sell their existing stock up until the consumer ban takes effect.