JoeyBike

I currently own only three bikes, none of them are motorized and none of them have burned down my house. Very unlikely they ever will. So if for some reason I can't pedal a bicycle I'll get a wheelchair. And if I ever live in an apartment or townhouse again my advocacy will be directed at my neighbors NOT owning eBikes.

"These bikes when they fail, they fail like a blowtorch," said Dan Flynn, the chief fire marshal at the New York Fire Department. "We've seen incidents where people have described them as explosive — incidents where they actually have so much power, they're actually blowing walls down in between rooms and apartments." -NPR

FDNY investigated 174 battery fires, putting 2022 on track to double the number of fires that occurred last year (104) and quadruple the number from 2020 (44). So far this year, six people have died in e-bike-related fires and 93 people were injured, up from four deaths and 79 injuries last year. -NPR

But I guess electric cars catch fire as do gasoline powered vehicles, generally not in people's kitchens or bedrooms. I'm not really a hater of eBikes, just can't imagine ever owning one myself. As for advocacy, motorists might hate them less than most cyclists if they can keep up with traffic, at least on 20-35 mph streets.