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"In a letter sent to New York Governor Kathy Hochul in December, People for Bikes asked that e-bikes be excluded from the state’s forthcoming digital right-to-repair law... The letter cited 'an unfortunate increase in fires, injuries and deaths attributable to personal e-mobility devices' including e-bikes. Many of these fires, People for Bikes claimed in the letter, 'appear to be caused by consumers and others attempting to service these devices themselves,' including tinkering with the batteries at home. Before Hochul signed the right-to-repair bill, it was revised to exempt e-bikes.

"Asked for data to back up the claim that e-bike fires were being caused by unauthorized repairs, Lovell said that it was 'anecdotal, from folks that are on the ground in New York.'"

Entered into the record of today's hearing by Congressman Fry (R-SC).

Entered into the record during today's hearing by Congressman Fry (R-SC)

I don't propose any and every repair guide on the Internet relevant to post; we could easily drown in them.

What sets this one apart? Not sure why, but it never occurred to me that LED lightbulbs could be repaired.

Almost want to set up a drop box for burned out LED bulbs to give it a try. I don't imagine them equally repairable. Provided it caught on as a niche hobby, I expect something on the order of Open Repair Data could be collected on this topic alone.

These records display the wide variety of products brought to repair clinics, offer data for a few statistics as well as other insights.

The most reported obstacle to repair was absence of spare parts at 32%, rising to 48% if the category is expanded to include cost-prohibitive spare parts. "No way to open product" was an irritating 17%. Lack of service documentation was 12%.