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That's good, I'm sure you will find it more enjoyable to ride than a single speed small wheel e-bike. .

The EU and Britain have a 250 watts maximum power rating and a 25 kph assist speed limit. Independently acting full throttles are illegal. Privately owned e-scooters are also illegal in Britain. So that and your 1000w and 500 watts e-bikes cannot be used here legally unless successfully...

That's the key, good public transport. As I've been posting, we will go that way and already have in London where car ownership is now the lowest in the country. Not because it isn't affordable but because so many no longer need a car with our low cost and plentiful public transport. And...

People often combine two or three trips into one, since it makes good time and economic sense. I certainly do and as people get more hard up I suspect that will be more common. That's when topping up at one of the places will make sense. Remember than an elderly Leaf or Zoe may have under 30...

The main immediate future for hydrogen fuel cell is in powering buses for longer routes as we are doing in London, with other UK cities also now adopting them. The great majority of our London routes are continuing to change from hybrid to battery only operation, this now being policy. But for...

I fully agree that parts of the North are very poorly covered at the moment, but down here it is very different. Because as I've posted to you before, this is where the money and the EVs are. In many strategic locations there are charging stations with multiple units per location, 8, 12 or 20...

This doesn't convince me, particularly as RR are trailing NuScale at least and there are so many other rivals. Nor do I believe SMRs are more environmentally friendly, the marine power units have been quite the opposite. .

Of course, a warm welcome to the forum. As well as the Electric Bike forum we also have a Speed Pedelecs forum to cover places where the law is different from the European one. .

No, because we simply cannot supply enough cars. It's not like e-scooters, it will take at least twenty years from now to replace all our ICE cars, so there's no point in attracting everyone when we cannot remotely fulfil. Good, as I said just above. Because the slower electric chargers and...

That is just silly, saying it is usually where you fill up, that is with an ICE car. Changing to an EV means just that, change, such as changing how and where you fill up. Or if e-cars don't suit you at the moment, don't buy one yet. By 2030 you will be much better suited with many more...

Driffield is a small town, 13k population with six rapid chargers. What's wrong with that since I doubt they have that many e-cars and probably have home chargers if they do. So those six public charger are for visitors, and how many visitors will 0.002% of the country have at any one time...

Nonsense, what sort of unrealistic fantasy world do you live in? As my last post showed there are plenty of chargers and proportionally to the only 600K fully e-cars the supply is OTT in much of the country. .

Try pulling the other one, it's got bells on it. And the quote of 25% charge points out of action was utter bunkum. That has never ever happened. Below is the Zap map of Sheffield, Doncaster, Hull and Bridlington. Every charge point with pink on it is a rapid charger with the CCS connector...

I'm not missing the point. You are, many points in fact: Most of the investment has to come from the private sector, so they install the points where most of the traffic will be and where people are affluent enough to have EVs. That is essential to get some return, though none of them are...

And coal. ;) .

Agreed, but definitely not now when we are at our most vulnerable. Long ago would have been good, particularly during the North Sea oil boom. But otherwise not until we get into a much more stable future electricity supply position. That's likely to be a long way off thanks to the needs to...

Now you really aren't thinking, there will be no bite. ICE ban on buying starts 2030 or 2035 for hybrids. Average car life in the UK 23 years. Do you really think there won't be enough charging points everywhere by 2058 after another 35 years of increasing their numbers at up to 33% a...

My eyes are the open ones. I sometimes wonder why I bother, I've covered all this before in answers to you. There are inevitably twerps buying EVs when they are totally unsuited for what they want to do. Let them suffer their foolishness. Meanwhile, the shortage of EVs with year long...

While killing the most important bird, EDF. If you want to stop Hinckley Point and Sizewell C coming online, that's a good way of doing it. Not to mention the ill effect on the other vital investors, such as those building the wind farms and tidal sources .

Of course we try to change things there, as we have been trying for well over half a century But where change is concerned we are many times better at failing than succeeding. And of course there is the irony that while we want to get them off bicycles and into motor vehicles, we are trying...