Two months after town accepted sidewalk chargers for e-bike batteries, town has opened up purposes for constructing homeowners wishing to take part in this system.
“As more and more New Yorkers turn to e-bikes as a safe, affordable and convenient way to get around, we need to do our part to ensure charging is safe and accessible,” Ydanis Rodriguez, town’s transportation commissioner, stated in a press release Monday.
This system will permit constructing homeowners — or tenants with a landlord’s permission — to use to put in an FDNY charging cupboard able to recharging UL-certified e-bike batteries.
The refrigerator-sized units permit e-bike riders to cost or swap their batteries while not having to convey them inside, an effort to quash residence fires sparked by lithium-ion batteries.
Every cupboard will have to be accepted by the FDNY and might want to have a fireplace suppression system, air flow, temperature management, and automated shutoff if a battery is overheating.
Lithium-ion batteries have precipitated greater than 900 fires since 2019, injuring greater than 500 individuals and killing almost three dozen, in keeping with the FDNY.
