Brompton boss urges crackdown on “poor quality” e-bike batteries before public perception “snowballs into a world of fear” [Video]

The managing director of Brompton Bicycles wants to see a crackdown on “poor quality” electric bike batteries that have been blamed for several fatal fires and other non-fatal incidents.

Will Butler-Adams warned that public perception is already sceptical of e-bikes due to “too many examples of e-bikes, e-scooters and light electric vehicles hurting people” and that this could “all snowball into a world of fear” which could “affect the whole momentum of light electric vehicle transport”.

Telling the Telegraph that this would be an “absolute chronic shame”, Mr Butler-Adams expressed support for the Electrical Safety First charity’s attempts to introduce a new law on the dangerous lithium-ion batteries that have been blamed for numerous fires.

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“We’ve got poor quality stuff coming into the UK and if we’re not careful, that will affect the whole momentum of light electric vehicle transport, which …