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You see @flecc, you're making arrogant assumptions about me too when you actually know F-all about me too. I sold my Mercedes at my main home and so now choose to use public transport (in a city), but I still have my diesel VW van at my holiday home for day trips with my e-bike. Does that make...

I did. Why don't you? We are actually singing from the same hymn sheet. Wake up!

What you stated in post #187: And then you state: So get on a bus or a train (strikes aside). I too live in a city. It takes a massive change of thinking and I'll admit it's an education. I got rid of my car last month and now take I take a taxi, get on a bus or train and choose to live...

It gets scrapped at some point. The energy used scrapping any vehicle (petrol, diesel or EV) and creating a new vehicle just isn't justified by any measure, especially when you're just driving 400 miles a year. In all honesty, that train of thinking is exactly what the marketers want you to...

Yes, I know. I was in truth making a wider point. How much C02 was created scrapping your previous car and making your new Nissan Leaf? EDIT: How do you justify that doing just 400 miles a year? Thank you for supporting/plumping-up my Pension. It's already paying handsomely.

From what I've read, charging in sub-zero temperatures isn't good. As Neal says, get some new keys and keep/store/charge your battery in the warm, especially given that the cost of a replacement Bosch battery would be absurdly expensive.

I'm actually agreeing with you. Where I do disagree with you is that if you really want to actually help the planet instead of pretending to be "doing your bit", why don't you just get rid of your car altogether (EV or otherwise)? All energy creation is polluting (even turbines, solar...

I saw a graph the other day that suggested that 42% of the worlds electricity is still being generated by coal. If that is the case, 42% of the energy you're chucking into your EV is still heavily polluting our planet, it's just not polluting your own back garden. I certainly do invest in...

Off topic @guerney. Don't the Chinese make (pretty good, no compromise) copies, as they also do with Naim and other amp classics - even down to the case cosmetics? What you really want is a pair of exposure XVI's - same 100w high current approach and as rare as hens teeth. I bought a new pair...

Vive sold Fiido and offered cycle to work schemes, but they've just ceased trading. There's Bicycleland who sell Fiido and ADO among other brands and offer Klarna/Paypal/Zip staged payments, but not CTW schemes AFAIK. The trouble with CTW schemes is they cost the retailer money, and there's...

Adult Stabilisers - Roodog Electric Bikes

Following on from what Neal said above, it's a possibility that you bridged the prongs protruding from the other half of the folding frame when withdrawing the metal cased battery. That would effectively be shorting out the controller's capacitor. Although unlikely to cause any damage, it would...

I do much the same as you, except if I find I'm left with a fully charged battery with no prospect of using it imminently, I'll usually burn off that energy using a string of 12v halogen lamps to get it back down to about a 38v storage level. More recently though, it occurred to me that's...

I haven't measured the DC side, but I'm sure they are effectively shut off. The idle current measured is on the charger's AC input.

It depends on the charger/battery. One brand is <1w so shows 0, the other two are <2w. I read there was a Chinese EV (car) maker at the Paris motor show this year using "blade" batteries... i.e. you slide old ones out and new ones in, rather like changing AA batteries in a torch.

That company was wound-up in June 2022 (click here). Ironically, the trading address is exactly the same as ACCTEL given in post #7.

On the subject of cell balancing... I have three e-bikes all using different makes of batteries/chargers with five bike batteries in total. In all cases, the cells are still balancing long after the green LED comes on, consuming about 18w at that point, which drops to 0-2w when actually...

Cost: It says 14.5Ah Panasonic cells. Even so, the whole bike is only 1300 euros. I've never seen a four-pin connector on a Phylion pack until I just went looking for it (I wasn't even aware there was a revised SF-03 design). The 6-pin wiring config is above; 4-pins? Who knows. That it has a...

Hmm. Okay. I doubt that's Phylion then (or not one I recognise/one of their common ones). EDIT: Ignore that. The original SF-03 battery (uses the round notched 5-pin charger): The new SF-03 battery (uses the newer D-plug charger): You think this may be it? It looks it to me. Gird your...

Bicycleland and Vive were the two both in East London, although I think the later has now stopped trading (as others have done before). I'm not sure how any bricks-n-mortar retailer can hope to make a living selling a minimal margin direct to consumer product when the punter can buy the same...