E-Bike Ban?
Fueled by fire safety concerns,
a new rule
would ban e-bikes
and e-scooters from all
public
housing in New York City. The
potential move has faced backlash already.
Fueled by fire safety concerns,
a new rule
would ban e-bikes
and e-scooters from all
public
housing in New York City. The
potential move has faced backlash already.
Officials had hoped that new research would help solve a long-simmering debate on fire door gaps. It didn’t.
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E-bike and E-scooter Fire Safety
Battery-powered electric bicycles and scooters, collectively known as micromobility devices, have exploded in popularity in recent years, but so too have fires involving these devices. From New York City to India, e-bikes and e-scooters batteries have sparked fires that have killed dozens of people and destroyed hundreds of thousands of dollars of property. Today on the podcast, Angelo interviews an FDNY chief about New York’s experience over the past two years with electric micromobility devices (2:40), as well as a battery researcher at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (27:00).
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