A dealer’s workshop used to be full of ‘ordinary’ bicycles, but now, most of the bikes are electric. The repairers have to repair and maintain more and more e-bikes.

All those bicycle batteries have to be charged up. Thijs Hendriks used to do that on a bench, where they were left to charge up overnight.

However, a battery can become extremely hot while it is charging and burst into flames and even explode. It prompted them to find a reliable solution and that was the Batteryguard cabinet.

Do you work with bicycles and are you looking for a way to charge up your batteries safely?

Insurers are having to pay out increasing amounts for claims for damage caused by lithium-ion batteries. Because Thijs Hendriks had lots of these batteries charging on a work bench, its insurers insisted that they be kept in a special fire-resistant safe, mainly because there are still no rules about how bicycle batteries should be charged safely.

You hear more often about bicycle batteries spontaneously bursting into flames while they are being charged, causing enormous amounts of damage. Rob Hendriks was worried that something like that could happen in his workplace.

The battery is the most vulnerable part of an electric bicycle. If the bike falls over, the battery can get damaged internally. If you then connect the battery to a charger, it can spontaneously combust and even explode. These are fierce fires where toxic substances are released and local residents have to be evacuated.

If you put your bicycle batteries in a Batteryguard safe, you keep any potential battery fire or explosion inside it.