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Using the correct figures helps. As at the end of October 2023 there were 920,000 BEVs in the UK, plus 560,000 plug-in Hybrids, much lower risk with very much smaller and lower stressed batteries. That's 2.79% BEV, or 4.48% including plug-in hybrids, so on average there would have been around...

Not exactly generous, considering the Tesla Roadster was the Lotus Elise under licence from Lotus and the electrical drive side was first created by an unconnected experimental team, givingMusk the idea. .

In the days when most assisted bikes were petrol engined they had no speed restriction law. Whatever they could reach was ok, some could top 30mph still assisted, especially downhill. And back then there were no cycle helmets, they weren't invented until over 30 years later. The population...

I've reached the conclusion that it was far better in the 1940s, '50s and '60s when every assisted cyclist had to have their machine registered and number plated, insured and also had to have a provisional or full motorcycle licence. That didn't put anyone off using one since there were well...

Why does anyone accept 3.95% fron NS & I for a year fixed when a secure 5.9% is available from some protected banks? .

Ultimately we won't fail, there will just be another big War, meaning we will just be able to print as much money as we like. No more non-employed, they will be in the factories producing armaments and correcting our low productivity. It will solve the problem of the Boat People too, as Rishi...

Yes, that will work ok. Originally, before I gained the ball joint coupling, I used a truck / pickup type tow hitch, a simple pair of horizontal plates on the bike with a drop-in hitch pin, gapped enough to allow for a little bike banking. After all, I wasn't going to imitate Moto GP aces...

Then why do you obsess over it? What is your problem with Cyrusher when they say this: "So when you receive your new ebike now, there will be no throttle on the handlebar, and the motor is restricted to 250watts with a top speed of 25KMs (15.5mph). Please note : Cyrusher do not condone the use...

Detailed photos and full description. You'll need something made with stronger materials for your maximum tow weights. The knob was a decorative large plastic bottle top that I saw an among rubbish (maybe a scent bottle) that I turned down to size, but you'll need to panel beat a thick steel...

Best make your own as I did, specifically to allow under counter fridges and cookers etc to be carried. But I prefer two wheels to avoid the drag of four wheels. Mine is based on the same HomeCom base as yours but it wasn't called that back then in the early 1990s and was a grey import from...

That certainly helps us to do that, but the end will always be the same, the harsh day of reckoning. The usual escape route twice has been world scale war, clinging onto the winners apron strings our way of saying we won too and cashing in accordingly. Trouble is that's becoming far too...

The same over the whole of Britain in the 1940s and '50s Neal, cars virtually non-existent post war. But not so much cycling in the 1960s as people fell to the charms of Vespas and the like and cars became more available. Everyone moans about today's governments but really that is unfair...

It's all going to plan, but for sensible people, electric cars don't have the true cost you refer to. Buying one to sell it is simply stupid, people must learn that the entire market is radically changed by electric cars, That is why the trade hate them so much. They don't sustain the long...

I've been forecasting this for years, and it's not just young professionals. The young in general in London have long ago given up any ambition of car ownership and its not just costs that have brought that about. It's having a good comprehensive public transport system, making a car a...

She's destroyed herself and probably her future. We already knew what a heartless, wicked bitch she is from her saying that homelessness is a lifestyle choice. But her savage betrayal of her PM and Party is a whole new behavioural low. Who would ever offer her a post in office after this...

Sunak only had such unpromising material that he turned to a solution used a number of times before over the centuries, the reservists in the Lords. Last time was in 1963 with Sir Alec Douglas-Home. Given the sorry state that party is in, being unconventional is not a bad tactic, since " same...

I think it was a very smart move on Sunak's part, the shock and surprise of Cameron's return a perfect way to divert all the attention from the Braverman sacking. And gaining an experienced hand as foreign secretary into the bargain, a first step towards getting back into Europe...

Nor me in 17 years from day one of the forum. You must have seriously upset someone! :confused: .

Emphatically no. That would be irresponsible, teaching primary school ages that it was ok to ride on a pedelec, whether switched on or not, even more so as a part of cycle training. And remember, even a primary school is a public area where the law applies. .

Minimum age one is allowed to ride a pedelec in the UK is 14 years. http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/52/section/32/enacted