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For the last 25 years, Elsayed ‘Mando’ Elgammal has sold halal food from his cart in front of LaGuardia Community College. Like most food vendors in New York City, Mando depended on a small Honda generator to power his refrigerator, gyro machine, deep fryer and lights during his 10-hour shifts.

That was until 2023, when he had bought a Joule Case rechargeable lithium-ion battery after receiving one from the nonprofit Street Vendor Project to test

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