Hochul signs bills to extinguish deadly e-bike batteries that led to fires that have killed 18 in NYC

New York is recharging its fight against e-bikes’ lithium-ion battery fires. Gov. Kathy Hochul signed a package of bills Thursday that ban dangerous substandard batteries she said are linked to nearly 270 fires that killed 18 people across New York City in the last year alone. “These batteries don’t catch on fire like kindling, they...