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    Lithium-Air Batteries

    lithium will be by the by soon enough, carbon nanotubes are already being tested and theyll kill all the current battery techs (oh and theyll probably kill silicon soon enough, or nanotubes cut into nanoribbons) ah nanoscale carbon, its the future! now all we need is a greener way to generate...
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    Electric bicycles overview?

    thats just plain stupid, surely we (ie governments/councils etc) should be doing all they can to get people on to greener transport, sure its not totally green as it uses electric but its a very nice in road for lazy gits like me, maybe after a year or so on the assisted ill be a little fitter...
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    Pondering

    as a man just moving from motorbikes to elec bikes i may be able to enlighten you a bit, im guessing that £580 scooter price is a chinese cheapo and believe me they are more trouble than they are worth, just look on ebay you wont see too many second hand ones for sale more than about 2 years...
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    Noob on a budget needs advice

    Thanks for all the advice guys, the budget wouldnt stretch in the end and im too impatient (and way too fed up of walking) to wait so i decided to take a chance on a nice condition 2nd hand powacycle salisbury lpx for the bargain price of £250 from the classified section on here. if i like...
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    Noob on a budget needs advice

    well thats 2 struck off my list then, leaving only one of the originals, but after seeing the cyclamatic and a few others in that range im thinking im better off if i beg/borrow/steal the extra to reach a £500 budget is there much diffence between the 24v battery in the cyclamatic and the 36v...
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    Noob on a budget needs advice

    sorry i deliberately put the broken http in, its force of habit, im used to posting on forums where live links are not allowed so we hxxp em. i only wish i could stretch the budget but in truth the £300 is what i have to spend, anymore than that comes out of my food and drink budget for the week...
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    Noob on a budget needs advice

    hi all, im new to all these elecric bikes, been a motorcyclist for years but have got sick of the constant problems and costs, so ive sold my cheapo run around and am looking at an electric bike. sadly im on a bit of a budget so im here really to ask what is the best electric bike i could...