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can i useNiMH batteries on my new X2?
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If you have lithium equipped Seway, Unless you are going to pull the batteries and carry them into the cabin, forget it. I bought an i80 and use nickel metal hydride solely for airline travel. There you ride it to the plane door and they store it in the cargo hold like a stroller. I'd love to travel with my i2, but not until FAA rule change.
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I am just starting to investigate what would be involved with me flying with the segway. My first question is "What do you do when you have arrived at your destination with the segway ?" I have only flown like 2 or 3 times total, but at my destination, I took a taxi to the hotel. How do you get the segway to a hotel, that kind of thing. Thanks for your advice. |
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As, I said my experience in flying to a hotel or from hotel to the airport is limited...
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Airlines lump all lithium batteries together, instead of dealing with each type of chemistry, each type of mixture and each level of safety. They made this particular rule with too broad a brush. Also, airlines do allow lithium batteries, but only small ones. Ours in our segways have too much lithium, by the airline standards, to be safe to fly with... While I do wish they would update their rules to reflect the safer newer style of batteries, I also understand their fears. The new Boeing was grounded for a long while because of on board lithium batteries that over heated and caused fires (not the safer chemistry like segway batteries) and there have been incidents and even crashes that were attributed to lithium batteries having fires that could not be put out on board (also not the safe chemistry that segway batteries use). The most efficient and powerful lithium batteries seem to have a tendency or at least the capacity to over heat in the correct circumstances. Segway batteries do not have some of the high power output, or really fast charging times as some of these other lithium technologies, but it is also a very tough battery to make have any fire issues with. Much harder than most of its class.
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I think it is the FAA that bans large Li-Ion batteries from passenger aircraft. So under current regulations, airlines couldn't allow them if they wanted to.
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