With e-bike and e-scooter fire safety hitting the headlines recently (including several times here at ebiketips), you might be forgiven for thinking that light electric vehicles are inherently dangerous. That's far from the truth. As we noted in our article on e-bike batteries, ". just 0.011% of bikes and scooters on the market set on fire last year." That said, there is
A consumer safety charity has refreshed its call for e-bikes, e-scooters and their batteries to be better regulated in the UK after New York City recently introduced rules that require them to be certified as safe by a third-party organisation. The rules, which came into force on September 16, make the city the first in the USA to have introduced new regulations in a bid to