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New York City is testing public e-bike charging stations for delivery workers

The first location opened in Cooper Square.

Poorly made e-bike batteries have been implicated in numerous deadly fires caused by unsafe charging practices. A fire department spot-check of locations where multiple e-bikes were being charged found that 3 in 4 dangerous instances were in residential buildings. A blaze in February that killed one person was started by a lithium-ion battery being charged in a unit shared by six delivery workers.

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