The City Council, Mayor Eric Adams and federal lawmakers have all gone on the offensive to try and decrease the number of e-bike fires by tightening regulations and strengthening enforcement, with elected officials quick to roll out new initiatives in the days following high-profile fires caused by lithium-ion batteries such as the one at a Manhattan high-rise last fall.
And, now days after the June 20 fire caused by a lithium-ion battery in a Chinatown electric bike repair shop spread to apartments above and killed four people and injured three others including a responding firefighter, New York Senators Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand announced a $25 million grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation to install 173 outdoor electric-bike charging stations at 53 NYCHA sites across the city to help quell the possibility of additional lethal fires caused by the exploding batteries.
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