Vendors will want to stand out amongst the rest by talking about how safe their hoverboards are now that the public is scared of them blowing up under their feet or in their homes.
It's no longer just fancy colors, bluetooth speakers, security remotes and free bags that make each hoverbaord better than the next. It's that they won't explode! What a selling point, eh?
China will feel the heat, realize the US is demanding safer products and they'll have no choice but to up their game with better quality products. Yeah right. Not exactly. Perhaps companies would sell replacement batteries and replacement chargers to those that already have hoverboards.
Instead of selling aftermarket accessories, they'll focus on owners since they're already in the ecosystem. What beats excitement is fear. Fear sells. And instead of accessories, it's the guts of the hoverboard.
After a quick 10 minute search, I already located a company that sells "safer" chargers. Zooming into the photo of it, the UL listing was still missing. Next.
Then I came across landbirdboards.com. Seems very legit. The company points out in a lot more detail than any other site I've come across regarding the source of the fires and what the solutions are. Of course they sell these solutions which happen to be batteries, chargers and even a new motherboard.
Very tempted to buy the UL listed charger. I reached out to my vendor at Chinae Health for the hoverboard I have and asked for photos of the charger they plan on sending me. Within minutes, she sent me these:
No UL listing and if you look closely, there are typos in the text.
Back to landbirdboard: http://www.landbirdboard.com/blogs/news/81281030-how-can-you-know-if-a-hoverboard-charger-is-safe-and-qualified
They go into so much detail. Surely everything they're posting could be a complete lie, but why draw attention to themselves? If they're not actually selling UL listed chargers and not actually selling hoverboards with LG and Samsung batteries, making everyone aware of a lie and selling junk would ruin their reputation a bit too quickly.
The site flat out says to ignore the label on the battery. The label needs to be changed when shipped internationally anyway, so it's not the source of confirming whether the battery is really brand named or not. The only way to really know is to rip open the battery packaging and look at the actual cell. More detail on the website, but the point is that I'm trusting these guys more than the other sites I've seen, including Miberitech. No one else has responded to the exploding hoverboards as much as these guys.
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