Shipping e-bike batteries

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Has anybody had success shipping e-bike batteries (lithium ion) over seas? We have three e-bikes we would like to bring with us when we move, but are struggling to find a shipper that will ship the batteries for us. Since the batteries cost is ~50% of the bike cost, we will probably only bring the bikes if we can ship the batteries. Any advice is welcome.

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Lithium Ion batteries are not allowed in the hold of passenger aircraft. You’d have to find someone to ship them freight on a cargo aircraft or by sea.

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https://bikegrade.com/how-to-ship-e-…ternationally/

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Fedex may do it:

https://www.fedex.com/en-ch/customer…%20more%20here .

You have to give shipping details to get a definite answer

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Lithium Ion batteries are considered dangerous goods for good reason. There have been a number of aircraft known to disappeared and lost as a result of fires.

Shipping them will always be expensive. In particular by air.

Cannot you sell yours here and buy new ones there?

And please dont try and ship them undeclared. The consequences are enormous.

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Hi all,

Thank you for the responses! We had seen the articles on how to ship lithium-ion batteries, the challenge has been finding a shipping company willing to accept them from private individuals. We agree that it would be crazy to try and ship them undeclared. We could sell them here and buy new, but from looking at Tutti it appears that we might have to sell them for ~1/4 of the cost of buying new. Our conclusion was it made more sense to just sell the bikes here rather than spend ~750 CHF to replace each battery.

After posting today I did have some luck finding a shipping solution that I will share in case anybody else is interested in shipping e-bikes. There is a company called Gefahrgut-shop ( https://gefahrgut-shop.ch/de/gefahrgut-services that will help with preparing lithium ion batteries for shipping. They will help individuals and businesses do the paperwork, help with packaging and will even provide a 24/7 number as required for dangerous goods shipping. They will also organize the shipping since I’m told individual FedEx accounts can’t request dangerous good shipments (which is why we were struggling to find a shipper originally). They were recommended to me by the FedEx World Service Center in Zurich who seems to work with them a fair amount. During my initial contact with them they seemed informative and helpful. We will give them a try and see how it goes!