Lime pulls some electric scooters from three California markets, citing fire danger

A Lime electric scooter rider passes a cyclist on the Venice Beach Boardwalk in Venice on July 25, 2018. (Gabriel S. Scarlett/Los Angeles Times/TNS)

Lime has pulled about 2,000 of its electric rental scooters from the streets of Los Angeles, San Diego and Lake Tahoe, saying a battery defect in one model could cause the vehicles to burst into flames. 

Lime said in a statement that it found a manufacturing defect in an early version of the green-and-black scooters, produced by Segway, that could cause one of the onboard batteries to smoulder or catch fire.