FIRST on amNY: City Council leaders promote devices to test e-bike, e-scooter legality in new video

There are many illegal e-bikes and e-scooters zipping around the Big Apple, but given that they are often physically indistinguishable from their legal counterparts, they have proven difficult for the NYPD to indentify and seize. Democratic leaders of the City Council hope to change that reality by passing legislation requiring the NYPD and the city Department of Transportation (DOT) to test the use of dynamometers — treadmill-like devices that can measure the speed, power, and torque of electric micromobility devices. To promote the legislation, City Council Speaker Julie Menin and Transportation Chair Shaun Abreu (D-Manhattan) — the bill's sponsor — released a social media video Tuesday showing a dynamometer in action. They explain how dynamometers work and how Abreu's legislation would make New York the first city to employ them in the U.S. "It’s about the size of a treadmill, but it folds up and can be used by law enforcement on our streets to determine how fast and how powerful