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How many times do I have to explain we in Britain are not short of electricity for e-cars? It will be well over a decade from now before we will have made and supplied enough EVs to use our present night time surplus of current, and overnight charging is the dominant form of ev charging of...

A good EV design is no use without electricity and Africa's supplies are appallingly unreliable**. That's why they use unassisted bicycles as both taxis and for goods deliveries. Many parts of India are as bad, so these third world countries will be the last to switch to EVs. **Afrobarometer...

As Lancslass says, bar end mirrors that plug in are the most popuar and very good. I use the Cateye BM500 model. You just need to cut away the end of the rubber grip to insert it and it won't interfere with the throttle.

Indeed, a perfect summary of their respective presences. .

Correction. If you agree with the view the law took, not my view which just happens to coincide. Certainly inadvisable without complex precautions. I disagree. Firstly since it is proven to work extremely well in many other countries, most notably in Japan where cyclists often have to use...

The latest of a very long line of such cyclecars and quadricycles since 1920, none of them lasting in the market. The major failing in these latest electric versions will be the battery at about £2000 each needing to be be replaced every couple of years or so. Since even more than in e-bikes...

No I haven't had the most to say about it. I've had the most to say about those commenting and criticising the sentence. I don't care if the offender only ends up serving three weeks, her punishment is nothing to do with me. It's the original sentencing strong message I'm defending. For...

Of course not, because she would not be pushing the cyclist into the road. You keep making light of what she did, which was to effectively force the cyclist off the pavement and under a car, killing her. That is what she was punished for. Two sets of professionals, the police and the CPS...

The Crown Prosecutiion Service give this explanation: "Unlawful act manslaughter will be the most appropriate charge when there is evidence that a vehicle was used as an instrument of attack or to cause fright, (but where the necessary intent for murder is absent), and death occurs as a result...

Inevitable. All his life he's been getting away with lies and incompetence, which in his mind is winning. But this time he has come unstuck in very big way which he cannot present in any way as winning. Nor is he mentally equipped to cope with everyone seeing him in office as wrong and...

We don't know if the cyclist had time and space to stop, it doesn't seem she had, and in any case she at 77 years was elderly, possibly with slower reactions. The police officer who saw the whole video was clearly horrified by it and believed the sentence justified, as must the CPS who will...

I think two factors. Jurors often being drivers are likely to have empathy for the driver, and in addition there's considerable anti-cyclist feeling among the general public. Due of course to those who cycle fast on pavements and who jump traffic lights and mix with the pedestrians crossing...

You all thought my post about joining the Russian Federation funny, but consider this: Russia is still with the old world trading prices for energy we used to have in 2021. But their friends like Abkhazia, Transninistria and Belarussia only pay a quarter of those! Ukrainians also enjoyed...

Although true, we won't be seeing Boris Johnson returning anytime in the near future. There are two scenarios: 1) The Tories with Sunak win the next election, in which case Sunak will be secure as PM for the following five years, the Tories as ever love a winner. 2) The Tories lose the next...

Or we could be the rich poor by joining the Russian Federation and enjoy the world's far cheapest Oil, Gas, Grains and an abundance of minerals. And no Tory Party! ;) .

It's probably too late anyway. Remember how the continentals poured out in disapointment and disgust at the Brexit vote, feeling so unwelcome. So when we really had to bring in more care workers in 2021 we were having to bring them from India, the Ukraine and even Russia. Now even the last...

I rather like the inadvertant abbreviation of the thread title on the Forums page ;)

As I've posted previously, the lithium scarcity is just another scare story, there will be vast amounts discovered in due course. We get this nonsense all the time. I well remember the 1950s and '60s story that peak oil had been reached and we would run out of crude oil by the millennium. In...

So what do we do, let her off with a very light sentence? All that will do is reinforce her obvious belief that she can act in this way. Worse still it will give oxygen to the hordes of like minded anti-cycling public in this country. The rules are perfectly clear, the problems are that a...

No way was the woman causing the death a victim. She is not the police so had no right of enforcement, even less her physical enforcement. She is just a nasty minded, bossy person who cared so little for the elderly victim that she walked off into the supermarket to get her shopping. .