{"id":209291,"date":"2025-09-08T04:10:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T04:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/209291\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T04:10:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T04:10:11","slug":"nycs-new-e-bike-battery-crackdown-includes-push-to-confiscate-uncertified-batteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/209291\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC&#8217;s new e-bike battery crackdown includes push to confiscate &#8216;uncertified&#8217; batteries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Adams administration is looking to ban the storage and use of \u201cuncertified\u201d e-bike lithium-ion batteries after a series of deadly <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/06\/03\/e-bike-battery-fires-this-year-have-killed-more-in-nyc-than-in-2022-fdny\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fires <\/a>in buildings across the Big Apple.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>A cyclist rides an e-bike in New York. Bloomberg via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters responding to a two-alarm fire caused by a lithium battery in a Brooklyn building. Kevin C. Downs for NY Post<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince day one, the Adams administration has made keeping New Yorkers safe our top priority and that includes taking significant steps to crack down on the uncertified e-bike batteries that have sparked multiple deadly fires,\u201d a spokesperson for <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/06\/21\/call-311-for-e-bike-battery-issues-mayor-eric-adams-urges-nyc-but-fails-to-tell-the-service\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mayor Eric Adams<\/a> said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese proposed rules would make it illegal to store an uncertified lithium-ion e-bike battery anywhere in the city.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Officials said the city has sent letters to delivery companies operating in the city, instructing them to make sure their workers are provided with the proper equipment, including safe, certified e-bike batteries.<\/p>\n<p>The NYPD would enforce penalties against e-bike riders or others found in possession of uncertified batteries. William Miller<\/p>\n<p>The FDNY, which drafted the new rules, cited agency data reporting that fires and fire fatalities linked <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/12\/04\/metro\/e-bike-battery-sparks-nyc-fire-that-killed-one-injured-six\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">to storage batteries <\/a>for e-bikes, e-scooters and other powered mobility devices increased significantly in recent years.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There were 13 injuries and 23 injuries in 2019 and 2020 from battery fires respectively, with zero deaths.<\/li>\n<li>But injuries from battery fires more than tripled to 79 in 2021 with four deaths.<\/li>\n<li>In 2022, there were 147 injuries and 6 deaths from battery fires.<\/li>\n<li>In 2023, deaths from battery fires tripled to 18 with 150 injuries.<\/li>\n<li>Last year there were 99 injuries and 6 deaths connected to e-bike battery fires and 29 injuries and one fatality through July of this year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/06\/24\/why-e-bikes-are-killing-new-yorkers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> City Council <\/a>and mayor approved a law in 2023 which bars the distribution, sale or lease of a storage battery unless it has been certified by an accredited testing laboratory as meeting safety standards.<\/p>\n<p>The FDNY will hold an Oct. 1 public hearing on the rules, before making revisions or adopting them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Adams administration is looking to ban the storage and use of \u201cuncertified\u201d e-bike lithium-ion batteries after a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":209292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,19979,5302,5289,6525,4216,5248,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,5257,44966,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-209291","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-batteries","10":"tag-bikes","11":"tag-eric-adams","12":"tag-fdny","13":"tag-fires","14":"tag-metro","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-city","17":"tag-newyork","18":"tag-newyorkcity","19":"tag-ny","20":"tag-nyc","21":"tag-nypd","22":"tag-sanitation-department","23":"tag-united-states","24":"tag-united-states-of-america","25":"tag-unitedstates","26":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","27":"tag-us","28":"tag-us-news","29":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115166722566008317","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}