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Suffolk Trading Standards has warned that growing numbers of e-bikes and e-scooters are being seized or refused entry to the UK due to safety concerns. It says that in the past two years over 13,000 e-scooters and e-bikes have been seized at the Port of Felixstowe alone. As well as the seizures, 9,000 e-scooters have also been refused entry by its Imports Surveillance team for
The city of New York has seen an explosion in battery fires sparked by e-bikes and e-scooters.
Uber has announced an e-bike trade-in scheme aimed at New York delivery riders. The move comes amid growing concerns about unsafe batteries in a city where over 65,000 delivery workers are thought to use electric bikes. Last month, New York City Council mandated that e-bike, e-scooter and other LEV battery packs be third-party certified. Partly in response to this, Uber has
London firefighters are meeting delivery companies and drivers to give them safety advice in a bid to reduce the growing number of e-bike fires that are happening in the capital. London Fire Brigade is speaking to delivery companies such as Just Eat, Deliveroo and Uber Eats so they can support efforts to get safety messages across to their riders, and firefighters from 102
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