{"id":594197,"date":"2023-07-28T12:08:57","date_gmt":"2023-07-28T06:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=594197"},"modified":"2023-07-28T12:09:20","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T06:39:20","slug":"as-e-bikes-proliferate-so-do-deadly-fires-blamed-on-exploding-lithium-ion-batteries-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/as-e-bikes-proliferate-so-do-deadly-fires-blamed-on-exploding-lithium-ion-batteries-2\/","title":{"rendered":"As e-bikes proliferate, so do deadly fires blamed on exploding lithium-ion batteries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK &#8211; The explosion early on a June morning ignited a blaze that engulfed a New York City shop filled with motorized bicycles and their volatile lithium-ion batteries. Billowing smoke quickly killed four people asleep in apartments above the burning store.<\/p>\n<p>As the ubiquity of e-bikes has grown, so has the frequency of fires and deaths blamed on the batteries that power them &#8211; sparking a push to better regulate how the batteries are manufactured, sold, reconditioned, charged and stored.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK &#8211; The explosion early on a June morning ignited a blaze that engulfed a New York City shop filled with motorized bicycles and their volatile lithium-ion batteries. Billowing smoke quickly killed four people asleep in apartments above the burning store. As the ubiquity of e-bikes has grown, so has the frequency of fires and deaths blamed on the batteries that power them &#8211; sparking a push to better regulate how the batteries are manufactured, sold, reconditioned, charged and stored.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,239,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-594197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=594197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}