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It's a legal issue since walk assist is based on the pedestrian controlled vehicles law. That is for powered barrows where the pedestrian pulls on the barrow handle and the barrow obediently follows until the pedestrian stops, releasing the tension on the switch that controls the motor. .

Strictly speaking EAPCs don't have any law, they are exempted from motor vehicle law and treated as bicycles since 2015. And with just one exception our laws mentioning bicycles have always said: "bicycles, tricycles and bicycles with four or more wheels" So there is no upper limit on the...

I joined the trade in 1950 and was selling and fitting assist motors back then, so I have a very long experience and knowledge of them and their developments. It's an interest I've always retained. No it isn't, the whole point of assisted cycling is to widen the numbers who can use bicycles...

Stripping of all you suggested. The perfection of the invention of the bicycle was its simplicity combined with incredible efficiency and the reward of the pleasure that cycling gives. Every power assisted bicycle loses that perfection and the more that it is refined in the manner you...

The direction of not being in any way still a bicycle. :( .

Agreed, it's one of the best characteristics of driving my e-car, the recaptured energy is inconsequential. .

But how would the resistor value alone progressively phase the charge rate according to the battery content For example on a 50kW rapid charger I monitored throughout on my Leaf: Charge commencing with 22% already in the battery, charge rate was 46kW. Reducing very gradually over time, the...

It's far more than that. The handshake has to agree the maximum charge rate, essential when some public chargers can deliver uk to 375 kW rate these days but most e-cars can only accept far less. 50kW in my 2018 Nissan Leaf, 22 kW in the case of earlier Renault Zoe's. And then the charge...

These adapters have been around for a while butI still don't know of anyone using one on a bike battery. A potential problem is that the public chargers and EVs need to "handshake" before the charge will proceed, raising the question of whether the bike items will be recognised. .

There's more information about pan European Ebike charging in this article by Powerunity: https://powunity.com/en/finding-an-ebike-charging-station-keep-your-ebike-fully-functional .

As so often said, there's nothing new under Sun, see this link about such a company jointly created byPedelecs members Morphix (Paul) and funkylin (Linda) and financed by members, including myself: https://www.pedelecs.co.uk/forum/threads/final-mile-ebike-solution.31003/page-2#post-433643 .

I had fully understood your meaning, but am convinced by the long history of the failures of the attempts already made that there isn't enough recoverable energy to make it worth bothering. I'd thought at the time that Panasonic, as an EAPC pioneer, of all people could make it work well enough...

Well said, that is exactly my experience with my e-car after over six years of experience with it. The regeneration doesn't in any way compensate for the distance lost in free wheeling. I am even more negative about the concept of regeneration on what people mistakenly think are e-bikes...

Only at the cost of battery life and an appalling record of totally burnt out cars. Most of the worldwide story of e-car fires is a Tesla story. The launch of their model A was delayed four years, in part due to the fires, with at least three cars burnt out during that time. Nissan know more...

No chance, it's been tried many time of bicycles and has never succeeded. BionX with their direct drive rear wheel motor had four drive modes rider selectable and equally four regeneration modes selectable, but the latter was just ever harder work for hardly any return. Giant Bicycles, one of...

Why not, those TT speed limits sound like Sur-ron territory now. .

It's World Bicycle Day, and also World Cider Day, National Chocolate Macaroon Day and last but not least: Ecuador's National Chimborazo Day .

Renault discontinueed manufacture of the Twizi in September 2023. Being in truth a moped with four wheels and not a car, it failed in the market. It will be replaced by a similar car under a new brand name as the Mobilise Duo, but unlike the Twizy it will sensibly have the two seats side by...

Announced a long while ago at a too high £14,000, now at a ridiculous £22,000. the rather flimsy Microlino has no hope. The full size, well equipped MG EVs start at £30,000, not much more, and there will be better small EVs from China shortly, if we in Europe don't kill them with anti-dumping...

I doubt they will measure it. Like us, they will go by what the makers label and seller says it is. .