GET OUT: E-Bike Battery Fires are a Crisis We Can No Longer Ignore

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By Charles KomanoffNov 12, 2026, 12:04 am38 pts
Back-to-back mass-death fires in Brooklyn and the Bronx have rocked the city these past two weeks, taking ten lives and ripping apart countless more, as reported in the Times, News, Post, Hell Gate, City Reporter, Gothamist, and of course Streetsblog. Substandard e-bike batteries likely triggered both…

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