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No, two are not illegal, there have been examples, including the SRAM Sparc long ago which had two motors in one hub and currently the Heinzmann two 125W hubs example that @saneagle mentions. The mention of motor in the law covers any provision that in total is 250 Watt rated by the...

Some truths in that, but heavily dependant on your idealism which won't all happen. And you've completely left out the most important element, Russia and it's huge cheap resources including cheap energy for Europe. Why do you miss the obvious? I correctly forecast the Ukraine war start and...

Strongly disagree, it was good to see Zelenskyy at last put down, he's long been far too arrogantly riding western opposition to Russia. There's not much I agree about with Trump, but on this issue Trump has it absolutely right. As you know I've long ago insisted that Ukraine in general and...

Almost everyone. I tried it. Had a letter from a returning officer saying he didn't accept that my signature was a sufficient match to the sample submitted when I registered, so my vote was being disallowed. So, having been on that particular electoral list for over half a century, I kicked...

I let a drop-handlebar roadie friend try my Giant Lafree with similar comfort handlebars, since he'd never tried e-assist. When he returned his immediate comment was, "What wonderful handlebars", not a word about assistance! .

Parliament signed up to this statement on the morning of 10th November 2003 so it's been the law ever since then. Regardless of the many times it's been mispresented by government sources since then, as they foolishly seek to simplify their explanation of it. .

Russia pioneered these a long time ago on their coastline: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_floating_nuclear_power_station&ved=2ahUKEwiZ9_265d6LAxVBQkEAHY8LDEwQFnoECBYQAQ&usg=AOvVaw2H0S4KAmG_Cp3ZKsKNJDIc...

I agree it won't be problem, that's just the rapid chargers. There's another 45,000 slower public chargers, quite a few of them free to use. Plus over 80% of EV owners have their own fast chargers at home and there's a million of those, one per car. .

I do, we had them in Bournemouth and very good they were, when operating. Their great weakness was their inability to handle sharp corners, derailing the current pickup arms with depressing frequency. Some spots were notorious, their turn from The Square in the town centre into Richmond Hill...

Fully agree, and so do most of these riders in my extensive London Borough of Croydon who mostly ride mopeds. The Waitrose branch here has provided parking right by the front door for them and there's often one or two Deliveroo mopeds there waiting for orders to come in. .

That is what happened to the S class 45 kph pedelecs. Because 250 watts wasn't sufficient, the legal limit was upped to 500 watts. But that proved so greedy the market, customers and makers, settled on 350 watts as the ideal balance. .

This was Honda's original Step Compo from 20 years ago. It too was quite slow, 12 mph tops; https://www.atob.org.uk/honda-step-compo/ .

We rode at much slower speeds, most cycling was typically at 10 mph, none of today's barmy belting around helmeted at 20 mph or more. .

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But the politicians don't want you and every Tom, Dick and Harry to own a cheap to buy and run car. They want you to be content with a plain vanilla bicycle, unless you are one of the minority wealthy elite who can pay the high price to maintain that position. Back to the nineteenth century...

Way back in the late 1960s I owed a forerunner of the Kei cars, the Honda N600, their earliest car which also came in a 360cc version. Like a Japanese Citroen 2CV, it had an air cooled twin cylinder engine and motorcycle style constant mesh gearbox. Fun to drive and it's 600 ccs thrashed...

Certainly that is what is needed, but how could Aliexpress send individual Li-ion batteries in big 5 to 15 kWh capacities? At present these cars all have their own size batteries in a bewildering range of capacities and voltages. That, as it's realised, will quickly kill them in our market...

Even in a large market like China, they can't all survive, so with no standardisation there's a high chance of being unable to get a replacement battery after three of four years. And these micro cars will cost twice as much when they reach here anyway. .

Great design David. I'm a firm fan of rear hub motor with rear battery and rack and don't understand the rear weight objections with smaller wheel folders. The years with my own Ezee derived adapted Q bike proved the usefulness of such long wheelbase small cargo bikes for weight carrying and...

They don't have to and such measures are not necessitated. In such as The Netherlands they are just to help make driving far less popular and cycling more popular, a general policy they've pursued ever since 1972. But they are currently losing the battle, car driving there is relentlessly...