The e-bike industry is facing scrutiny and regulation due to dangerous battery fires. As a result, e-bike manufacturers are requesting exemptions from right-to-repair bills, arguing that it's a matter of safety and that consumers should not attempt to repair e-bikes, particularly the batteries. Instead, they are encouraging battery Recycling. However, right-to-repair advocates argue that this claim is being used to distract from the issue of cheap, hard-to-repair e-bikes flooding the market. The e-bike industry has made progress in battery recycling, with a program that has 54 participating brands and over 1,800 drop-off locations for end-of-life batteries.

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