New York lawmakers, families push for lithium-ion battery safety standards

Lawmakers in New York are making a new push to create safety standards for common batteries found in e-bikes and scooters.

New York lawmakers are making a new push to create safety standards for common batteries found in e-bikes and scooters."Right now, there is no mandatory federal consumer safety standard for these lithium-ion batteries.""I want parents to be aware that you cannot bring these types of things into your home," Marilu Perez Torres tearfully told reporters in Spanish, seven months after her young daughter was killed in a.

Her parents Sunday joined Senators Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand in an emotional plea to regulate them on a federal level.FOX 5's NY Christine Russo reports. "Right now, there is no mandatory federal consumer safety standard for these lithium-ion batteries and that has allowed cheap, faulty batteries to remain available to consumers," Sen. Gillibrand said.

The lawmakers introduced new legislation called the Setting Consumer Standards for Lithium-Ion Batteries Act, which would work to take faulty-batteries off the market and create strict guidelines to protect both civilians and first responders."There are safe batteries, and they have certain provisions in them that don’t allow them to explode and shut things down when there’s a malfunction and etc.," Sen. Schumer said.

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