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No, it's not going to. "Dutch authorities say the fire on a car carrier off the coast of the Netherlands is finally receding. Salvagers have managed to board the vessel and attach new towlines. This should give them better control of the burning ship." .

No, not another one. This is the same one Scorpio posted just above on this link .

Apparently it was a special, based on a Lancia Delta but as an electric drive prototype rallye car design. There's a few firms now doing electric conversions of i.c. cars, often based on Tesla motors. .

Don't know why they think it's new idea. My London Borough of Croydon (larger than most of the places they are bringing it in) introduced a borough wide 20 limit eight years ago. Only some of the major through routes are exempted. They'll hit the same problems we've had with enforcing it...

People read instruction manuals? :D As a friend in photographic retail used to add when showing a customer that all in the camera's box was complete: "and this is the instruction manual you read after you've broken the camera". His attempt to prevent that happening of course. .

A bit like the problem when people fumble around the rear of a lap top to plug in a USB A, only to find to their cost that it's been designed to neatly fit into the RJ45 connector, blowing that. .

More information on that having done more miles today from that slow charge (2.1kW rate). There's two methods available to assess the capacity gain over the normal charge rate at this part discharged point. The first is miles covered against the percentage capacity the car tells me has been...

It's because the steering is opposite to that of a bicycle. On a trike one steers towards the turn direction. On a bicycle one has to steer slightly away from the turn direction to permit the banking for the turn. Once used to this a trike's steering feels completely wrong. .

It does, but balancing can still mean that any cells below the optimum charge level can be topped up from those fully charged. Doing that can result in the mean charge being slightly below optimum and the charge recommencing with the red light coming back on to top up that slight shortfall...

I've learnt more about lithium battery charging from my 5.5 years of my e-car than in all the experience of pedelecs,,mainly due to having three charging options as I posted before. As said then, the thing that really matters most is charging speed, though it having low density cells is a...

Knocking out the pedestrian below and incinerating the body to get rid of the evidence. ;) .

You're in Az, riding on Embankment Road: Map Link .

At 24 years old in 1961 I bought the 3 bedroom bungalow below for my parents to live in FoC. Large garden, 108 foot frontage with detached garage just out of photo on the right. Near Dunstable Downs: £2650 Today, offers in excess of £395,000

You're in now Les, riding on Beacon Lane: Map link .

That's very misleading, retail price index interest rates, excluding housing. No mortgate back then was at 25%. Even the investment mortgage rate with the Property Owners Building Society that I was using peaked at 9%. Mortgage rates one way or another will adjust to suit what enough people...

That's already happened here in South London. The prices were falling earlier in the year but are now rising sharply again as the shortage bites. And that despite the now higher mortgage rates. .

Not so with all e-cars. The forerunner Nissan Leaf for example has only ever used flat prismatic cells for it's over 12 years on the market, and these sort of cells are what's used in battery electric buses. The Mitsubishi MiEV uses Le50 cells made by Yuasa, and some models latterly use...

The only thing that matters with e-car batteries is speed of charge. For example my third series Nissan Leaf has three options for charging it's 40kWh battery: Rapid from a public charger at up to 50kW rate. Charges an empty battery to 80% in 40 minutes The more this is done, the shorter the...

As matter of interest on the subject of labelling, the 1983 EAPC regulation required a label on every pedelec giving the Manufacturer's name, the Battery voltage and the Motor power output in Watts or Kilowatts. And until the 6th April 2015, that power output was limited to 200 watts according...

You say, but that is not what the law says, so I'm answering the question correctly. If someone is nervous enough to go to all the trouble of labelling to comply with the law, they might as well complete the compliance. But that's for the nervous who are inquiring what the law is. As the rest...