Posted on 06/25/2023 12:02:45 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
NEW YORK (AP) — After a series of fires involving faulty e-bike batteries including a recent blaze that claimed four lives, New York City officials announced Sunday that they are receiving a $25 million emergency grant from the federal government to fund scores of charging stations citywide.
Mayor Eric Adams hopes the stations will provide a safer way for delivery workers, who rely on e-bikes to efficiently do their jobs, to recharge lithium batteries used to power their bicycles.
New York City has seen over 100 fires and 13 deaths this year linked to e-bikes, more than double the total number of fatalities from last year, officials said.
Adams had announced in March that the city was working to establish charging stations. The grant would fund an initial 170 charging units in about 50 locations.
New York Sen. Chuck Schumer, the Senate Majority Leader, said the charging stations proved “new hope” to prevent “these fires that start from shoddy China-made lithium ion batteries and chargers,” he said during the press conference.
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand said she and Schumer were working on legislation to establish safety standards for batteries.
“If passed,” she said, “it would take improperly manufactured batteries off the market.”
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Which big political donor will get the contract for this?
𝘕𝘦𝘸 𝘠𝘰𝘳𝘬 𝘚𝘦𝘯. 𝘊𝘩𝘶𝘤𝘬 𝘚𝘤𝘩𝘶𝘮𝘦𝘳, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘦𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘔𝘢𝘫𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘓𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘳, 𝘴𝘢𝘪𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘥 “𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘩𝘰𝘱𝘦” 𝘵𝘰 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘵 “𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘦 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘥𝘥𝘺 𝘊𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘢-𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘶𝘮 𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘣𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘳𝘴,” 𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘪𝘥 𝘥𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦.
I’m going to go out on a limb and speculate that these new batteries and chargers will also come from, or be assembled locally using parts, and materials from China.
Says Chucky “new hope” to prevent “these fires.....
One of the most unique examples of we will fix this crisis we created I think I have seen. Obviously if they had not taken tax payers money to buy the stupid e-bikes there would be no battery fires.
Get rid of the batteries altogether and use the money for really long extension cords!
Just use MoPeds.
Get rid of the bikes. Walk. My daughter just left NYC after 7 years and never rented a bike once
Every failure, they get more spending and more regulation to “fix” the problems they caused.
Failure is their superpower !
You must feel relieved she left that dump. That city is far from safe.
Chuckles doesn't know...
Visualizing China’s Dominance in Battery Manufacturing (2022-2027P)
https://elements.visualcapitalist.com/chinas-dominance-in-battery-manufacturing/
I have seven street and off-road gas motorcycles and one electric mountain bike and recently have been using the e-MTB most. For charging I use a very low charging rate (overnight charge) which is unlikely to create any kind of a hazardous condition. And the battery is disconnected from the bike’s electrical system during charging.
Unless we are able to manufacture superior batteries than the ones we have right now.
Isn’t that called- throwing good money after bad? I think so.
What NY REALLY needs is a Mayor changing station.
Which scrap yard do you go to? That $150,000 station would only get a few bucks where I go.
And Chucky votes to stop any new mining on US soil so China will continue to use slave labor to make their batteries.
That $25mm could have been used to buy new crack pipes for the homeless addicts. So sad.
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