[HN Gopher] E-bikes caused record deaths, fires last year in New...
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       E-bikes caused record deaths, fires last year in New York City
        
       Author : tomohawk
       Score  : 10 points
       Date   : 2024-01-21 22:02 UTC (59 minutes ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (news.yahoo.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (news.yahoo.com)
        
       | Throw84949 wrote:
       | > when you look at those taped-up batteries, you see that they
       | are refurbished
       | 
       | EV cars and buses will be like that in couple of years. Look how
       | old busted Toyotas are maintained. Look how MTA maintains subway
       | network, some parts are literally 70 years old!
        
       | pmb wrote:
       | Compared to cars and motorcycles? More e-bike usage means more
       | e-bike accidents - that's just arithmetic. And e-bike usage
       | soared.
       | 
       | This is scaremongering without those comparisons. The tell here
       | is that somehow e-bike usage in NYC is being blamed on "Democrat"
       | lawmakers. Historically and in most style guides, they are called
       | "Democratic" lawmakers - dropping the "ic" is a right-wing media
       | thing.
        
       | dralley wrote:
       | *record ebike-related deaths and fires
       | 
       | If this was the 1910s, one could write an article about "record
       | car-related deaths" and declining "horse-related deaths" and it
       | would mean very little beyond that more people are using cars and
       | less are using horses.
        
       | karmajunkie wrote:
       | both the source and contents of this article are 100% predictable
       | by reading only the headline.
       | 
       | this is trash reporting.
        
       | dopylitty wrote:
       | I'm not from NYC and don't know much about the ebike usage there.
       | So I found this podcast episode[0] interesting. It covers a
       | business that is doing ebike battery swaps as a way to reduce
       | these charging fires. The battery swap business is one of the
       | ones involved in the 'Charge Safe, Ride Safe' mentioned in the
       | article.
       | 
       | Along the way though it covers some really interesting aspects of
       | who's using the ebikes (refugees) along with who runs the battery
       | swap company (a hasidic Jew) which I also found pretty
       | interesting since it's a quintessentially NYC story.
       | 
       | 0: https://thewaroncars.org/2024/01/16/the-future-of-
       | transporta...
        
       | gurchik wrote:
       | This micromobility movement has been severely affected by these
       | no name duct-taped batteries. Both my apartment building and
       | work's office forbid e-bikes and e-scooters on site due to risk
       | of fire, no exceptions. Even if some solution comes out that
       | prevents these dangerous batteries from being used, it's going to
       | take years (if ever) for these rules to relax.
        
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