NYC’s new e-bike battery crackdown includes push to confiscate ‘uncertified’ batteries

Fuente: New York Post

The Adams administration is looking to ban the storage and use of “uncertified” e-bike lithium-ion batteries after a series of deadly fires in buildings across the Big Apple. The NYPD would enforce penalties against e-bike riders or others found in possession of uncertified batteries, which would be confiscated and disposed of by the Sanitation Department, under proposed new rules. 3 A cyclist rides an e-bike in New York.