A smart graduate has used 80 discarded vape batteries to power his e-scooter – to make a point about waste. Tobiasz Stanford, 23, says disposable vapes aren’t as expendable as is claimed. So he scooped up around 80 discarded vapes and wired the lithium-ion batteries up to a scooter he bought for £30 on eBay. The scooter is now fully functioning and “very dependable”, said CGI and visual effects grad Tobiasz. He wants to raise awareness about the effect vapes are having on the environment. Tobiasz, from Trowbridge, Wilts., said: “I exploit [the scooter] on a regular basis and it is very dependable. “It can go up any hill, has been used in rain and has been driven through puddles. “The one downfall is that it is fairly noisy however aside from that the efficiency is loopy.” “The quantity of vapes I see on the road is de facto upsetting. These vape batteries have the potential to energy a scooter. “They’re very active still yet they’re marketed as disposable. It needs to stop” Tobiasz found vapes used a lithium-ion battery – which may be recharged – after taking a number of aside. He started recharging the batteries and located after one cycle they might operate “almost like a brand new battery”. Tobiasz then seen fellow college students at his college in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffs., utilizing e-scooters. So he determined to make use of his assortment of vape batteries to construct his personal. He stated: “I’ve always had a fascination with electronics and moving parts. I’ve always wondered how things work and have built things like my own drones before. “Someday I noticed my good friend smoking a vape and started to marvel how they labored. “I used all different types of vapes. Some of them could have been recharged and reused five times before the vape liquid ran out. “I bought all the batteries totally free and located an inexpensive supply for a scooter on eBay. The scooter did not have good vary and will solely go to 16 kilometers per hour. “It took me a month or two to get it together and I had to be careful wiring up the batteries but now the scooter works better with the vape batteries than it did before. “Now it goes to 25kph and may go up any hill. I often cost it in a single day and may cost in about three hours. “Once it’s fully charged I go around six miles everyday on it.” Tobiasz says persons are “wowed” when he tells them the small scooter is powered utterly by disposable vape batteries. He stated: “Everyone’s quite surprised. My family and friends are completely shocked when they see what I’ve done. “It is a very small scooter and most of the people cannot even inform it is even powered – by no means thoughts powered by vapes.” Tobiasz says he wants others to know that disposable vapes can in fact be reused and believes there needs to be more restrictions on the sale of disposable vapes. He said: “We’d like to consider ‘ewaste’ with larger significance. “The amount of vapes I see on the street or in ponds – which have the potential to power a scooter – is so bad. “They’re very lively nonetheless. When these chemical compounds break down lithium will begin to spill out. “The consequences of that will be ridiculous. It will happen over time. “We have to do what we will to cease this from taking place and that features banning disposable vapes.”
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