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You should bother to read my EV posts. Then you'd know that well over 80% of e-car buyers have a home charger and a high proportion, like me, buy a car that has a range covering almost any of their journeys. Why would we want to buy expensive public charger electricity? .

I don't blame you, they'll still be selling plenty of car i.c. fuel for over 30 years yet and for many more years for other vehicles. .

Of course, this was inevitable. The great majority of EV buyers at this early stage, well over 80%, will have home and/or "at work" chargers, so will do almost all their charging that way. Many are also only charging in the night when the unit cost can be as low as 5 pence. As of February...

Except BP who made a big mistake. They bought the largest charging company, Chargemaster and set about installing chargers at all their filling stations. So they bought the installation costs and the poor incomes. That's going to need some creative accounting to keep the shareholders happy. .

In some ways I envy the clarity of the new US law on pedelecs, three classes roughly corresponding to our Eurpopean rules with all three limited to 750 watts actual power. Simple and easily understood. Simple changes to Class 1 and 2 only would also meet our needs for adaptable utility...

Self seeking politicians happened. Instead of human advancement giving ALL of us a age of increasing leisure, they stole its benefits for the minority privileged, leaving most of us with a negative outcome, an ever lengthening working lifetime. The French had the right idea, slaughter the bas...

I think it's more a case of the blind leading the blind. Given all the complexities of the law, I very much doubt those delivery boys really know what is legal or not. And it is clear the police don't fully understand it either. If a delivery boy is certain of his bike's legality, all he has...

Why do you complicate things, it is NOT a big fudge? It merely shows that such laws cannot of course be backdated to before something is manufactured or permissions first given. .

Bodge it and Scarper (BS Bikes) are the manufacturer. For example a Winchester bicycle shop started creating assisted bikes using a Chinese front hub motor with a custom controller and battery pack typically fitted to Cannondale road bike models, marketed under the Cytronex brand over several...

But the difference is for perfectly good, sound and rational reasons as I've explained at length before. Power assistance is allowed on bicycles for those who need it, not as a general provision to increase performance. The legislation is therefore aimed at utility cyclists who tend to cycle at...

Indeed, they are obviously relying on their accused giving up rather than challenging. That said, it seems many of those they seize have more than one, or even several obvious illegalities. .

I covered this aspect in post 519 : "The question of "wheel in the air" speed testing is a sticky one, since the law specifies a strict cut off at 15.5mph which the police are relying on. However, the law also specifies it as the assist speed cut off, so since in such a test the assist...

Here's what I posted in my thread on the law: Kit Motors Be aware that hardly any of the above applies to kits or any home construction, the regulations only being for manufactured pedelecs. So both individuals and suppliers operate in a legal vacuum in which all try to supply and/or use as...

I added this to my previous post: An order to destroy is to deal with vehicles that cannot be legal at the time, such as privately owned e-scooter. Clearly that doesn't apply if a label or plate is missing from an EAPC and it is the only fault, so any attempt to get such an order can be...

2015 No. 474 ROAD TRAFFIC The Pedal Cycles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) Regulations 2015 LINK Within that is this extract: "(3) In regulation 4— (a) omit the words “it is fitted with”; (b) for paragraph (a) substitute— (i) fitted with a plate securely fixed in a conspicuous and...

Not so. If you refuse to accept that the bike is illegal, they have to take you to court and get the magistrates to issue the destruction order. At which time you can shown the magistrates the proof that the bike is an entirely legal pedal cycle in law, conforming to the exemption in...

And many other companies too. But the government doesn't leave it personal choice. They play the guilt game to say that we, the early retired are to blame for the government revenues being inadequate. Not true of course, here's why they are: The wealthy inadequately taxed through tax havens...

They are pushing their luck though. Their female life expectancy is 86 years but male only 79 years, this latter the same as ours in Britain. Danish males have a right to feel aggrieved at being sold short. It would be more sensible to call it Pension Age, retirement age should be left up...

Translation: Hello, I have a Fiido D1 electric bike. My son broke the throttle (keys). So, he disconnected all the connectors on the WK3615MS controller. I need to reconnect everything, but he hasn't located the connectors. I'd like to know if anyone has a wiring diagram because the color...

No it doesn't. Look at the wording of Exemption (h) which allows the auxiliary power: (h) pedal cycles with pedal assistance which are equipped with an auxiliary electric motor having a maximum continuous rated power of less than or equal to 250 W, where the output of the motor is cut off when...