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As you'll know I've never defended Tesla and in these pages have been one of their harshest critics of their battery policies. Anyone buying a model A or model Y currently is a mug, not having a clue about the battery it will have. I would never buy any of their models. And supercars like...

Yes, I did watch the video, but I am not so easily fooled. When Hyundai sell the entire car with battery for far less, the battery emphatically does not cost 60,000 Canadian dollars, though they might be charged that. Rip offs are commonplace, and as you said, there was a mistake admitted...

We'll see. I still remember 1955 and the promise I listened to of nuclear electricity so cheap they wouldn't bother to bill anyone. Now we have Hinckley Point and EDF guaranteed doubled going prices for everything it produces. .

Nothing wrong intrinsically, but I question whether British SMRs are the right product, competing with and making alongside the market leader in their own back yard. Would you make a British designed pedelec hub motor in Suzhou and then try to compete with it, or just buy one of Suzhou's...

Possible, but to what point? An all Chinese one would probably be cheaper and perhaps better, given their extensive nuclear power experience. It's on occasions like this that I think of trains, jet engines, hovercraft, first ever nuclear power station, all British firsts and businesses...

Agreed. In fact there is no need for any power limit, a point the European Parliament made long ago. Pedelecs are inately self limiting anyway, since they can only have what a bicycle can cope with in terms of power versus range, Push the power too far and either the range becomes...

Looks like China is well ahead once again. Let's hope RR, who are still only in the design stages, can match China's undoubted ability with nuclear power. I can't help thinking they'll find that more than a little tough to achieve, especially with so many other competitors too, some like the...

In other words, it was the usual nonsense from the anti e-car brigade. The battery for that car does not cost anything remotely like 60,000$. .

No there isn't. How many times do we have to tell you this? The first series Ezee Torq, made in China, comfortably peaked at over 1000 watts and seemed mostly unburstable. And the Cycles Maximus 250 watt rated Pedicab had a Lynch motor capable of continuously delivering 4kW, peaking at...

It is very unlikely you will be able to improve on the 24 KPH anyway, since your Engwe 014 model has obviously been designed for legal compliance. The small rear wheel hub motor, 14" wheel with no room for larger, and fixed shaft drive for pedalling, almost all common options for more powered...

As someone about to enter his 88th year, I hope you do and are still independent then. .

Maybe look far ahead. There could come the day when you get what they think is best for you! :oops: .

Indeed, a Merry Christmas and a Happy and Successful New Year to all. With a special mention for Saneagle, NealH and all the others too many to mention who, with the patience of saints, nurse the unfortunate through their pedelec technical ills. The forum would be far less valuable without...

Just as for EAPCs, there is no actual current rating for 250W LPM, since they have to comply in all respects, (other than the fitted fully acting throttle) to the EAPC regulations and type approval exemption. So the 250W LPM bikes from Wisper have exactly the same motor and controller as their...

Most importantly on the wattage power question, any pedelec that complies with the rules is a bicycle in law and specifically ruled to be NOT a motor vehicle. Other than that for bicycles, they have no law on construction and use, the laws on those that exceed 15.5mph assisted, exceed the 250...

Does it matter? Look at i.c vehicles which are often just as vague but nobody frets about that. For example 50cc Mopeds, just a cubic capacity specifying the vehicle class with no idea of how powerful any one actually is. Cars were similar for many decades. From 1910 there was the RAC...

When the whole European Parliament debated this only a few years ago, that is exactly the conclusion they reached and recommended to the EU Commission. But the 28 member commission, one from each country, and all retired politicians from those countries put out to pasture, rejected it. So...

Embarrassingly so. The very big increase in acceleration and power of my latest series Leaf in 2018 meant delicate tickling of the accelerator pedal among all the other slower traffic. Within two months I got so fed up with this driving "on edge" that I switched from Normal into ECO mode...

The Bing AI answer had a giveaway exposing a flaw common to humans: When they don't know the answer to a question they open with either "That is a very good question" or "That is an interesting question". Either is just playing for time while they rummage around in the grey stuff for an...

I'm very unlikely to reach 90 ! But I've been driven around at times for all my life, just selecting a destination and the vehicles never failing. They're called lifts, or more correctly in the USA, elevators. .