E-Moto Retailer Crackdown

After 17-year-old Gabriel Nacato was killed on Chambers St July 29 riding an Amazon-purchased Deepower e-moto that exceeded NYC's 25 mph / 750 W legal limits, Mayor Mamdani sent cease-and-desist orders (Aug 5) to 42+ online retailers — Amazon, Best Buy, Target, Walmart, Wayfair, Temu, Segway and Deepower among them — giving them until Aug 18 to stop shipping prohibited devices into the five boroughs or face up to $2,000 per sale. Council Speaker Menin's parallel 17-bill package (Aug 4, hearing Sept 30) would go further: banning currently-legal faster e-bikes and forcing delivery-app data disclosure. Mamdani declined to endorse mandatory rider registration, saying it would not improve safety and would burden immigrant delivery workers.

[UPDATE Aug 7] Amazon issued the first substantive retailer response, telling PIX11 the company is "looking into the products in question" and has "no issue working with the mayor and City Council to get it right," citing existing safety-standards requirements. Response arrived 11 days before the Aug 18 compliance deadline and $2,000-per-sale fine risk. No public response yet from Best Buy, Wayfair, Target, Walmart, Temu, Segway, or Deepower.