The trade-in program will be open to any New Yorker 18 or older who has earned at least $1,500 in the past year delivering food.
“Certified” == crippled?
Seems to be more worry about battery explosions. Though I doubt the certified ones are too powerful. City streets aren’t meant for high speed ebikes.
Yes exactly. It’s trading the bikes in for one certified by underwriters laboratories with batteries certified by them as well
Who is paying for the program… Better be fuxking corporate parasites and not the taxpayers
Frankly, from a public policy perspective, this is way cheaper than dealing with the apartment fires that would otherwise occur.
From public policy perspective, these employers should be paying for their slaves equipment.
But maybe I am just too much of a capitalist to expect something like that under a corpo state.
Good point.