# New York Times: Few Are Trading In Dangerous E-Bikes for Safer Ones, Despite Fire Risk

Center for Sustainable Business

September 5, 2023 ![NYT Logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/2023-09/Untitled%20design%20%2814%29.png?itok=r8b4VDZ6)The Economic Commute Project, an initiative co-founded by Invest NYC SDG, was featured in a New York Times piece as an innovative solution to dangerous e-bike batteries disproportionately impacting low-income deliver workers. The[ trade in program is live](https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/DWWMJ2R) now!

*"After a spate of [deadly lithium battery fires](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/21/nyregion/e-bike-lithium-battery-fires-nyc.html) in New York City, an e-bike [trade-in program](https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/DWWMJ2R) began to offer brand-new e-bikes certified to industry safety standards at discounted prices to delivery workers who brought in their old ones...*

*[Marianna Koval](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/experience-stern/about/departments-centers-initiatives/centers-of-research/center-sustainable-business/about-csb/our-team/about-marianna-koval), another co-founder of the Equitable Commute Project and a project director at the Center for Sustainable Business at New York University’s Stern School of Business, said that the pilot program was just a start, and that elected officials, restaurants, and delivery customers would all have to work together to get safer e-bikes to the city’s delivery workers.*

*“We’re trying to show how it could be done,” she said. “But we don’t have the money to do it on a scale that’s necessary to ensure the safety of our delivery worker community.”*

Read the full piece [here](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/04/nyregion/ebike-trade-in-lithium-batteries-nyc.html).