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But not stop the fires, as witness all the Teslas burnt out with their 6000 to over 7000 x 18650s. I prefer my safer prismatic cells. Incidentally took it off the slow charger this morning with 172 miles range indicated, not bad at 5.5 years old with a nominally 168 mile WLTP battery...

Yes, the battery quality is important with the early Torq 1, but if you are using the bike restricted it will be much easier on the battery. I was one of the earliest owners in 2006, first battery 3 months, second (free) battery lasted 10 months by trying to look after it. A new generation of...

Yup, a perfect fit for a typical ITV audience. .

Meanwhile we have to put up with the scaremongering, for example: ITV on Thursday 31st at 8.30 PM have scheduled a program in the "Tonight" series titled: E-bikes and Scooters: Trouble on the Road? Sub titled: Adam Shaw investigates whether electric bikes and scooters are causing more harm...

The Mark 1 Torq models had a very greedy controller, particularly if derestricted, nominally 20 amps but in truth capable of very much more. Using the throttle freely meant only 15 miles for the 360Wh battery, 24 Wh per mile, a crazy consumption rate. They often wrecked the early Li-manganese...

Indeed, as I said the way they've covered all the aspects of the change in separate documents is a mess. For example covering the major change of removing all weight limits by just saying "remove article 4" without any mention of weight. Unless someone is really diligent that is easily missed...

It didn't even need to mention the 250 watts issue since that hadn't been illegal for 12 years and a ministerial order acknowledging that was issued on 13th April 2013. It's a mess as usual Afzal. The link you give covers the 250 watt aspect but makes no mention of the plating lable...

Alarmist nonsense, a fuss about nothing! The national lockdown in Britain was widely ignored: For example, here in the Supercity of London with 20% of the national population, the area takeups of both first and second vaccines was from 54.5% to 72.7%. The takeup of boosters was between 38.3%...

I'm sure those who set agendas are well aware of the propensity of the masses for deceiving themselves. After all, we got to where we are by democratic choice. .

Doesn't look daft at all. For several years I did my supermarket shopping using a supermarket type basket with adaptations on the rear carrier to clip it on. Using a blue handled DIY store basket to shop in Orange handled Sainsburys, I just walked in with my own basket to do my shop, then...

The legality is addressed it seems by having a master controller with the second as a sub system or slave. But they intend this system for multitrack use such as the rear wheels on a trike in lieu of a differential system. As well as the twin 125 Watt motors they say they can also supply twin...

So a couple broke! There are now almost 11,500 wind turbines in the UK: Onshore there are 8,827 turbines on 2,604 farms. Offshore there are 2,652 turbines on 43 farms. .

Earlier geared ones needed more costly maintenance but todays direct drive ones are very cheap to run and in most cases very long lasting, decades. It's not generally known but the USA was the world leader in wind generation from 1940 on, and with eighty years experience is still a major...

No, they can work well even then when the wind is strong, as it so often is over the flat Netherlands. Just look at how all the people's clothing is being blown about. You really are so negative, such as trying to convince that this car transporter would sink. It didn't of course. .

But look on the bright side: Indian conglomerate Tata Group and owners of Jaguar Land Rover have promised to spend £4 billion to build battery cell gigafactory in West Somerset, creating over 4,000 jobs and a much needed boost for the UK's automotive sector. Natarajan Chandrasekaran, Tata...

Not commonly known, but over a quarter of US States have long required some form of driving licence to ride an e-bike on roads. And e-bikes are banned from almost all state federal highways. New York State only allows them on roads with 30mph speed limits. So California aren't doing...

Thanks Ted, a useful reminder since many of our newer members will not know of this service .

The simple answer of course has already been adopted by Nissan and more recently, Tesla; with Tata's Jaguar Landrover following suit now. Make the e-cars AND their batteries where they are to be sold, not shipping them around the world. Nissan make them together in Japan, Britain and the USA...

Another intrinsic lithium cell problem, high rejection rates have plagued their manufacture. Tesla are still currently struggling to produce consistent 4680 cells in large quantities, though hopefully Panasonic now joining them as a manufacturing partner for the 4680s will help. At least they...

Indeed, all those laptop incidents were caused by poor cell manufacturing standards. The best manufacturers have tightened up on standards since and chemistries have improved. However I believe there are still many Chinese companies happily making low cost cells to suspect manufacturing...