The market for e-bike delivery has grown dramatically in the past few years.
Here's how startups, delivery companies, and city governments are improving safety.
The explosion of delivery startups and e-bikes in the past few years has led to a new type of boom: increasing battery fires.
"E-bike batteries are made up of a bunch of small batteries stacked together," Charlie Welch, ZapBatt's cofounder and CEO, said.
JOCOOther startups, such as Popwheels, are engineering safe batteries that are compatible with the e-bikes delivery drivers already own.
Persons:
—, Uber, Ravindra Kempaiah, Michael Pecht, Brian O'Connor, O'Connor, Charlie Welch, ZapBatt's, Welch, Jonathan Cohen, Grubhub, Jonathan A, Cohen, David Hammer, Hammer, Baruch Herzfeld, they've, We've
Organizations:
Bloomberg, Zen Electronics, University of Maryland, Fire Protection Association, UL Solutions, US Consumer Product Safety Commission, UL
Locations:
New York City, New York, Halifax , Nova Scotia, China, Carlsbad , California, Brooklyn , New York