The Cohens say there are two markets for the cabinets: delivery companies like Grubhub, Orbital Kitchens and Gopuff, and residential and office building owners whose tenants ride e-bikes.

Baruch Herzfeld, the co-founder of PopWheels, studies Talmud to steel himself for dealing with city bureaucracy.

The battery-swapping cabinet is only one part of New York City’s efforts to prevent fires from lithium-ion batteries, which power the e-bikes and e-scooters that have flooded city streets in ...

The fires are tied to the city’s delivery economy boom and its workers’ reliance on inexpensive, uncertified electric bikes and mopeds ... a fee to access the cabinets, but the Transportation ...