{"id":302390,"date":"2024-09-09T13:05:03","date_gmt":"2024-09-09T13:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/how-ted-cruz-is-preventing-safer-e-bike-batteries-in-the-us\/"},"modified":"2024-09-09T13:05:03","modified_gmt":"2024-09-09T13:05:03","slug":"how-ted-cruz-is-preventing-safer-e-bike-batteries-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/how-ted-cruz-is-preventing-safer-e-bike-batteries-in-the-us\/","title":{"rendered":"How Ted Cruz is preventing safer e-bike batteries in the US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/09\/how-ted-cruz-is-preventing-safer-e-bike-batteries-in-the-us.jpg\" \/>It\u2019s a widely held opinion that improving safety in lithium-ion batteries used for electric bikes and e-scooters is generally considered to be a good thing. And yet you may be surprised at why Texas senator Ted Cruz is obstructing a bipartisan bill to improve battery safety in the US. Believe it or not, it largely comes down to a strange culture war over gas stoves. <a href=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/2024\/09\/09\/how-ted-cruz-is-preventing-safer-e-bike-batteries-in-the-us\/\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/how-ted-cruz-is-preventing-safer-e-bike-batteries-in-the-us\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":302391,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-302390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-electrek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}