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The bus companies tendering for TfL routes buy or lease the buses. The one recent time when TfL was involved in that was to cope with Boris Johnsons disastrous decision to have a new routemaster hybrid design, in opposition to all knowledgable advice. Johnson as mayor had signed up to 1000 of...

Fortunately in Great Britain at least that isn't common practice, so as long as only a 250 watt rated motor is used and the bike is limited to 15.5mph assist speed they get nodded through. I said Great Britain and not UK for a good reason, since the police in Northern Ireland have a previous...

You are being very stubborn, despite having absolutely no knowledge of this law. It doesn't matter how engine power is tested since this is nothing to do with actual power. This EU and UK wide law is only for the maximum continuous rated power. The EN15194 test for that is is only to ensure...

Your understanding is wrong. All that matters is what the motor was sold to you as. If that was illegal, you cannot change it in law by yourself, regardless of what you alter it to. The only way you can change it in law theoretically is by taking it to a government approved testing station...

It's never been the best way, leaving the running as much to the incompetent as to the competent. The simplest way to improve it is the have voting access according to a minimum measure of competence, via a form of brief combined knowledge/intelligence test. Introduced, then refined over time. .

There's a new thread now for that: Link .

Trade bashing China's supply dominance, nothing to do with Taiwan. Trump, like Nixon, believes in there only being one China, without the two faced position the USA has adopted since. .

Nobody is wrong all the time, and for once Boris is right in some respects. A Trump presidency woud bring an end to the Ukraine conflict and also stop the current silly escalation of tension between the USA and China. .

What a load of nonsense, imagine the worst, then worry yourself silly thinking about it. We can't anticipate and prepare for new threats since the variety of possibilities is infinite. We should know that already after fretting about new strains of bird flu for a decade and then getting hit...

Seems somewhat like military research, of the sort we in the west did in the past, and probably still secretly do. Seeking possible methods of mass human incapacitation or deaths. .

We also have those in London. It had mirrors for the 132 mile drive from Ballymena. Perhaps they took them off in the south, not knowing what they were for? ;) .

Not the first times it's happened either. The network operators sometimes can't get sufficient capacity for chargers to be installed in time before the buses arrive, but the chargers get there eventually. It's no different from us still generating electricity from coal and imported woodchip...

Agreed, I haven't listened through. I'm so fed up with the endless posting of these videos by several members that I've long given up on listening to them interminably rambling on. In too many cases they take five or ten times as long than actually necessary to smugly make their often invalid...

True, but I still remember once leaving a friends home very late, remote from the car park on a freezing winter night and the frost covered icy state of my IC car then. Not a pleasant prospect at well after midnight in such conditions. But it could never be a problem with my EV having...

Hardly the equivalent to having the facility built in and functionally coupled to other comfort items like the heated steering wheel and seats. .

The same response to both posts. Firstly I've made my critical view of Tesla very clear before, they've been on the wrong lines from the beginning, a truth becoming more clear now, so Tesla should not be treated as a synonym for battery electric cars. Nor should the US market be treated as...

Another total twerp. I'm just about to go out in my EV although it ia zero degrees outside at the moment. In my former ic cars that would be a miserable experience for a few miles, but with its instant heating to 22 dgrees C, it's pleasant in my EV as I drive smugly to my destination. Nor...

Only 400,000 of them to have my Leaf nuclear powered! .

I haven't suffered any Yodel delivery for long time, but yes, they are very poor. Here they dont have professional drivers and dedicated vehicles, just using locals driving their own cars and often only delivering in the evenings as part time jobs. .

Perhaps because you've only ever lived in houses. Nearly a third of all UK households are single occupant, many of them in flats and maisonettes, multi-occupation with a common ground floor hall. In our most extreme cases in my London borough we have a number of tower blocks 44 storeys tall...