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  1. flecc

    Pedelec Law - The Details

    Indeed, as I said the way they've covered all the aspects of the change in separate documents is a mess. For example covering the major change of removing all weight limits by just saying "remove article 4" without any mention of weight. Unless someone is really diligent that is easily missed...
  2. flecc

    Pedelec Law - The Details

    It didn't even need to mention the 250 watts issue since that hadn't been illegal for 12 years and a ministerial order acknowledging that was issued on 13th April 2013. It's a mess as usual Afzal. The link you give covers the 250 watt aspect but makes no mention of the plating lable...
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    Petition the King

    Alarmist nonsense, a fuss about nothing! The national lockdown in Britain was widely ignored: For example, here in the Supercity of London with 20% of the national population, the area takeups of both first and second vaccines was from 54.5% to 72.7%. The takeup of boosters was between 38.3%...
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    "Conversion kits to blame in 40% of ebike fires, says London Fire Brigade"

    I'm sure those who set agendas are well aware of the propensity of the masses for deceiving themselves. After all, we got to where we are by democratic choice. .
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    Box for rack to carry stuff.

    Doesn't look daft at all. For several years I did my supermarket shopping using a supermarket type basket with adaptations on the rear carrier to clip it on. Using a blue handled DIY store basket to shop in Orange handled Sainsburys, I just walked in with my own basket to do my shop, then...
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    Help! What's the highest torque front motor (still UK legal)

    The legality is addressed it seems by having a master controller with the second as a sub system or slave. But they intend this system for multitrack use such as the rear wheels on a trike in lieu of a differential system. As well as the twin 125 Watt motors they say they can also supply twin...
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    Prices of the electricity we use to charge

    So a couple broke! There are now almost 11,500 wind turbines in the UK: Onshore there are 8,827 turbines on 2,604 farms. Offshore there are 2,652 turbines on 43 farms. .
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    Prices of the electricity we use to charge

    Earlier geared ones needed more costly maintenance but todays direct drive ones are very cheap to run and in most cases very long lasting, decades. It's not generally known but the USA was the world leader in wind generation from 1940 on, and with eighty years experience is still a major...
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    Lithium-ion blaze aboard ship - specialist crews en route

    No, they can work well even then when the wind is strong, as it so often is over the flat Netherlands. Just look at how all the people's clothing is being blown about. You really are so negative, such as trying to convince that this car transporter would sink. It didn't of course. .
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    Lithium-ion blaze aboard ship - specialist crews en route

    But look on the bright side: Indian conglomerate Tata Group and owners of Jaguar Land Rover have promised to spend £4 billion to build battery cell gigafactory in West Somerset, creating over 4,000 jobs and a much needed boost for the UK's automotive sector. Natarajan Chandrasekaran, Tata...
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    California-e-bike-licence-law-in-the-pipeline-

    Not commonly known, but over a quarter of US States have long required some form of driving licence to ride an e-bike on roads. And e-bikes are banned from almost all state federal highways. New York State only allows them on roads with 30mph speed limits. So California aren't doing...
  12. flecc

    Recovery service.

    Thanks Ted, a useful reminder since many of our newer members will not know of this service .
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    Lithium-ion blaze aboard ship - specialist crews en route

    The simple answer of course has already been adopted by Nissan and more recently, Tesla; with Tata's Jaguar Landrover following suit now. Make the e-cars AND their batteries where they are to be sold, not shipping them around the world. Nissan make them together in Japan, Britain and the USA...
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    Batteries Charging Routine

    Another intrinsic lithium cell problem, high rejection rates have plagued their manufacture. Tesla are still currently struggling to produce consistent 4680 cells in large quantities, though hopefully Panasonic now joining them as a manufacturing partner for the 4680s will help. At least they...
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    Batteries Charging Routine

    Indeed, all those laptop incidents were caused by poor cell manufacturing standards. The best manufacturers have tightened up on standards since and chemistries have improved. However I believe there are still many Chinese companies happily making low cost cells to suspect manufacturing...
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    Lithium-ion blaze aboard ship - specialist crews en route

    No, it's not going to. "Dutch authorities say the fire on a car carrier off the coast of the Netherlands is finally receding. Salvagers have managed to board the vessel and attach new towlines. This should give them better control of the burning ship." .
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    Lithium-ion blaze aboard ship - specialist crews en route

    No, not another one. This is the same one Scorpio posted just above on this link .
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    BBC and battery regulation

    Apparently it was a special, based on a Lancia Delta but as an electric drive prototype rallye car design. There's a few firms now doing electric conversions of i.c. cars, often based on Tesla motors. .
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    BBC and battery regulation

    Don't know why they think it's new idea. My London Borough of Croydon (larger than most of the places they are bringing it in) introduced a borough wide 20 limit eight years ago. Only some of the major through routes are exempted. They'll hit the same problems we've had with enforcing it...
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    Batteries Charging Routine

    People read instruction manuals? :D As a friend in photographic retail used to add when showing a customer that all in the camera's box was complete: "and this is the instruction manual you read after you've broken the camera". His attempt to prevent that happening of course. .