NEW YORK — The FDNY could get some federal help in its ongoing fight against exploding e-bike batteries.
Rep. Nydia Velazquez, D-N.Y., vowed Saturday to introduce legislation that would provide federal money for New York and other municipalities to create public charging and storage stations for e-bikes, scooters and mopeds — removing the potentially explosive lithium-ion batteries out of people’s homes where they can do the most damage.
“These stations will help get e-bike and lithium batteries out of residential buildings and into safe and accessible storage spaces where we can limit risk to our residents,” Velazquez said at a news conference outside a scorched Goodwin Place, Brooklyn, home where an lithium-ion battery sparked a blaze that cost a 67-year-old woman her life.
