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.

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      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.

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        Yes exactly. It’s trading the bikes in for one certified by underwriters laboratories with batteries certified by them as well

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    Who is paying for the program… Better be fuxking corporate parasites and not the taxpayers

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      Frankly, from a public policy perspective, this is way cheaper than dealing with the apartment fires that would otherwise occur.

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        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.