Brooklyn fire erupted after NYC partner in e-bike battery-swapping program didn’t follow FDNY rules

Fuente: New York Post

A Brooklyn company partnering with City Hall on a publicly funded e-bike charging and battery swapping program is under fire for violating FDNY safety rules after hundreds of batteries it was storing in a shipping container were incinerated, The Post has learned. PopWheels suffered roughly $500,000 in damages after a “thermal event” inside its Fort Greene storage unit at Flushing and Carlton avenues on Aug. 15 “wiped out 433 of our batteries,” the company said in a recent message to investors.