Get an electric scooter they said ...
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Pretty safe. 99% of these 'lithium battery suddenly turns into a giant pulsing blowtorch' things are cheap batteries from China, and as everyone should know, you can't trust anything cheap from china.
There are literally billions of Li-ion batteries in the world. While this is scary, it is exceedingly rare when you consider how many there are in use
Especially considering how minor and small a flaw in the battery actually has to be in order to runaway.