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  1. anotherkiwi

    The 'cycling though treacle' effect

    Yesterday i went for a long ride around town with my GF and felt sorry after a while and turned off the motor. I guess there is a 6-8 W drag there but since I have the trike I am much stronger and didn't feel any resistance.
  2. anotherkiwi

    e-Moblity - should bike shops be looking at the wider e-transport picture?

    Then the cells are rebuilt into a power wall to power your home!
  3. anotherkiwi

    Charging electric cars

    <metallic voice> SW I am your father... </end metallic voice> When you think they are still building batteries by hand for the cheap car :eek:
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    Charging electric cars

    Tesla test drive in the Basque country. Feel better now? Tesla test drive always bring sliced bread or marshmallows and a toasting fork would be my idea...
  5. anotherkiwi

    Upgrade my controller?

    I feel your pain... I have the same cells in my 10.4 Ah bottle battery. Use a lower assistance level and pedal harder, your battery will help you then. It is incapable of pulling you up steep hills without you giving any input. Do not try to modify the controller that battery isn't up to...
  6. anotherkiwi

    Charging electric cars

    My '55 beetle broke the clutch cable, I drove it for weeks without one starting at green lights on the starter. In downtown Wellington. In traffic... No one ever noticed! :)
  7. anotherkiwi

    Charging electric cars

    This is what I really want, forget the i8 earlier on: http://www.evwest.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=40&products_id=220&osCsid=35pev0u3pvkp2t2srs1de49di7 Or a kombi: http://www.evwest.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=40&products_id=226&osCsid=35pev0u3pvkp2t2srs1de49di7
  8. anotherkiwi

    Charging electric cars

    Oh you can do most anything, it is the price at which you can do it which is the problem... :D
  9. anotherkiwi

    Upgrade my controller?

    Battery sag... we need to know the type of Samsung cells, they make several different ones ;) And the gradient of the hill would help too.
  10. anotherkiwi

    Charging electric cars

    Same here where I walk the dog past an appartement building, unless someone has done an electric conversion on a rusty Peugeot 806... :rolleyes:
  11. anotherkiwi

    e-Moblity - should bike shops be looking at the wider e-transport picture?

    This is my current favorite because of the bafang max drive, we know we can fix one of those ourselves: https://www.ternbicycles.com/bikes/471/vektron-d8 And only 22.5 kg :)
  12. anotherkiwi

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    That was an eye opener for a young kiwi lad arriving in London all those years ago, I never have understood the discrimination against the Irish.
  13. anotherkiwi

    Charging electric cars

    OK damn the expense, an i8 then...
  14. anotherkiwi

    Charging electric cars

    If I win the Euromillion I will probably go straight out and buy a BMW i3 with range extender. If I hadn't been such an idiot in my finances I would probably already have a Twizy with a hot rodded battery pack.
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    e-Moblity - should bike shops be looking at the wider e-transport picture?

    Current (oh! a pun!) legislation is a brake on innovation in the e-mobility space. Assimilation of more powerful and/or faster e-bikes with ICE mopeds is one example. In fact real mopeds are all but dead because it is impossible to pedal with a full motorbike helmet on so pedal assistance has...
  16. anotherkiwi

    Charging electric cars

    http://www.alphr.com/cars/1001808/nissan-leaf-vs-renault-zoe-which-electric-vehicle-is-best The new long range version of the Zoe is good for 185 miles
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    Charging electric cars

    The Tesla giga-battery installed in Australia is already a nice little earner for the company operating it. The whole car feeding back to the grid idea is only going to take off if the owner of the car sees as much financial advantage for himself as the electricity companies do IMHO.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Oh well, off topic it is... It gets the boot loader with code for the CD driver off a floppy :) the SSD isn't big enough to hold the system and it has 198 Mb of RAM :D
  19. anotherkiwi

    restricted at 17mph

    We can't legally tell you that. Sorry! OK since you twisted my arm, most. :D My two KT controller LCD combos came with the cut off speed set to 72 km/h out of the box...
  20. anotherkiwi

    Interesting Batribike

    Thread hijack alert! (your fault Powerbikes...) look what I found in Spain last weekend in a handbag shop: Now if they made pedelecs that look like that they might be worth more than 3000€... I think that is the 49cc model.