Razor recalls hoverboard battery packs

Razor USA announced Wednesday it is recalling 237,300 Hovertrax 2.0 self-balancing scooters/hoverboards with GLW artillery packs.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) says the lithium-ion GLW artillery packs tin overheat and perchance drawback occurrence oregon explode.

The recalled hoverboards were manufactured betwixt Sept. 2016 and Aug. 2017, according to the CPSC.

They were sold astatine Walmart, Target, Toys R Us, and different stores nationwide. They were besides sold astatine Walmart.com, Amazon.com, and different websites from September 2016 done 2018 for astir $460, the CPSC says.

So far, determination person been 20 reports of the artillery packs overheating, but nary injuries.

The CPSC says customers should interaction Razor to get a prepaid shipping carton to nonstop the GLW artillery battalion back, and to person a escaped replacement artillery pack.