There are approximately 1 million ebike companies out there now — or, at least, that’s how it feels. Whatever the number is, it can be hard to know how to choose quality ebikes at a good price and not end up buying a bike with inadequate quality or too high of a price. Well, as safety — and particularly the safety of batteries — has become a broader concern, one benefit of often-unfounded fears of battery fires has arisen: more and more ebikes are getting UL certified. In fact, New York City has led the charge (no pun initially intended) and now requires that all ebikes sold in its jurisdiction be UL certified, meeting the UL 2271 and UL 2849 standards. To illuminate this topic for us, I recently spoke to David Duecker, CEO of Denago eBikes, about UL certification for ebikes and some…
Read the full article originally published at cleantechnica.com.