‘You can’t get out the window if you’re on the 20th floor’: Buildings act on risky e-bikes

5 FEBRUARY 2024

Sydney apartment owners are moving to ban or restrict electric bicycles and scooters in their buildings after a growing spate of battery blazes, undermining the state’s sustainability policies to encourage active transport.

The Owners Corporation Network of Australia, which represents the owners and residents of strata properties such as apartment blocks, townhouses and villas, will be launching its model bylaw later this month. The organisation’s chair, Fred Tuckwell, said the data showed electric vehicles were safe but e-bikes and e-scooters were a “massive, massive risk”, especially if they were poor quality, had incompatible battery chargers, or had been tampered with to “soup up” the device.

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