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Popwheels  participated in yesterday’s ‘Pedal Power for the Green Economy' event at the Brooklyn Army Terminal with JOCO, Net Zero Logistics, FLY EBIKE, DutchX, CLIP.BIKE Inc, Lime, Emissionless Mobility and others.   NYC and NYS  are advancing $100 million dollars into building a climate innovation hub at this historic location.  The goal is to grow green technology startups at BAT, part of Mayor Adams’ initiative to create 400,000 green jobs in NYC by 2040.  Public/private partnerships will be the key to the migration of NYC transportation to renewable energy. David Hammer participated in the panel moderated by Jennifer Sun to discuss this topic, with Chris Nolte, Irene Figueroa-Ortiz and Inbar Kishoni. All these new cargo bikes, light electric vehicles, and delivery e-bikes will need safe battery swapping, and after the panel David demonstrated our battery swapping cabinet outside Terminal B, which is one the cabinets up and running in the DOT Studio/ Newlab pilot.    Thanks Aaron Charlop-Powers for arranging everything, and Andrew Kimball, Meera Joshi and Ryan Lynch for their opening remarks, demonstrating NY’s commitment.

NYC's peaker power plants cost us about $500 million annually, cause certain neighborhoods to be referred to as 'asthma alleys' since they burn the dirtiest fuels, while mostly running only during the hottest days of summer. These plants were set to be brought offline already, but NYC's power needs are growing faster than we can implement cleaner sources of energy. As Popwheels rolls out an e-bike battery swap network locally, we are looking at ways we can share power back to the grid to help the city get rid of these plants for good.

A nine year old boy, living in Ozone Park, Queens, died in a tragic fire started by an electric scooter battery. His immigrant father was working as a food delivery rider and was charging the scooter battery in the house so he could work. The family was living in an illegal garage apartment, with probably faulty wiring. It was probably the best living situation the family could afford. We started Popwheels to prevent these types of incidents from happening. All over the city people are charging batteries they need for work in unsafe situations, putting at risk not just themselves, but everyone who lives around them. It's a recipe for disaster, and it happens over and over. Everytime we read a story like this it's heartbreaking, and further motivates us to make a difference in improving the lives of NYers.

Love the new swappable E-bike battery service available in Manhattan’s Cooper Square. Approx 100 delivery couriers are enrolled in the initial phase. Low carbon, convenient and safe. Cool stuff Ydanis Rodriguez 😎 🔋 🚴 https://lnkd.in/gCfSufTV

Today was a good day. Lots of people are talking about solving the battery-fire crisis; very few are actually doing something about it. Today, in partnership with the The Equitable Commute Project, we took dozens more bad batteries off the streets of NYC, destined for a battery recycler. Rinse and repeat a few hundred more times and we'll have this problem licked. Thanks to Newlab for being a gracious hosting partner for this important work!

Proud to be covered by the MIT Technology Review as a scalable solution to NYC's e-bike battery crisis.

Big news today for us at Popwheels. Excited to share that we've been selected to be part of a NYC pilot for solutions to the battery-fire crisis engulfing our city. Grateful to Newlab, the DOT, and the city's leadership for their forward thinking on this -- get ready to see our cabinets on the streets shortly! https://lnkd.in/ep26FahG