{"id":343564,"date":"2026-01-14T12:35:03","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T12:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/why-police-are-now-sending-some-confiscated-electric-bikes-to-the-crusher\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T12:35:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T12:35:03","slug":"why-police-are-now-sending-some-confiscated-electric-bikes-to-the-crusher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/why-police-are-now-sending-some-confiscated-electric-bikes-to-the-crusher\/","title":{"rendered":"Why police are now sending some confiscated electric bikes to the crusher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/01\/why-police-are-now-sending-some-confiscated-electric-bikes-to-the-crusher.jpg\" \/>Electric bikes and scooters are usually framed as a cleaner, quieter solution to urban mobility. But in parts of Australia, police are now taking a far harsher stance on certain e-rideables \u2013 including seizing them and sending them straight to the crusher. <a href=https:\/\/electrek.co\/2026\/01\/14\/why-police-are-now-sending-some-confiscated-electric-bikes-to-the-crusher\/ target=blank>Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/why-police-are-now-sending-some-confiscated-electric-bikes-to-the-crusher\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":343565,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-343564","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\/343564","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=343564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}