New York City wants lithium-ion e-bike batteries to be stopped at the border when they don’t meet national safety standards after rash of deadly fires::After a series of deadly fires.
New York City wants lithium-ion e-bike batteries to be stopped at the border when they don’t meet national safety standards after rash of deadly fires::After a series of deadly fires.
Remember those popular side-wheel scooters from China that burned down so many houses here in the USA? People stopped buying them because everyone became aware of what a fire hazard they are. You don’t see them at all anymore.
China and a few other countries with cheap labor markets are really bad about consumer product safety. They just don’t have any law enforcing safety standards. They use maximally cheap production resulting in unsafe products and there’s no local legal framework to disallow it. People buy products from these markets without being aware of the hazards. They assume domestic safety standards and that’s simply not the case.
New York city and state law can be intrusive and I consider them and California examples of what I call “nanny” states, but that’s one I agree with. Upholding safety standards is one of the few situations where I favor regulation of imported products.