Officials said the woman had been charging the chair with a non-manufacturer charger, which can overload or overheat a battery.

HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (CBS12) — A South Florida homeowner heard clicking from a thrifted wheelchair—after moving it outside, the lithium battery exploded, narrowly avoiding a house fire. Firefighters with ...

Lithium-ion batteries are used in all sorts of electronics, like smart phones, laptops, and e-bikes. That’s because they can store a lot of energy in a small package. Unfortunately, this also means ...

National Institute of Standards and Technology effort uses machine learning to identify telltale sound of lithium-ion batteries hitting flash point. Two NIST researchers say they have trained a ...

The woman watched the electric wheelchair go up in flames in her driveway: "I really couldn't believe it exploded in that manner and with that amount of force, I've never seen anything like it." ...

A Florida homeowner was caught on camera dashing from a wheelchair moments before it exploded and burst into flames.

A Florida woman narrowly avoided a violent death after buying a second-hand wheelchair at a thrift store that exploded in a huge fireball outside her home. Alexandra Anaya, from Hollywood, heard a ...

"Eight seconds later it exploded into a ball of fire," Alexandra Anaya said.