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A bit like the problem when people fumble around the rear of a lap top to plug in a USB A, only to find to their cost that it's been designed to neatly fit into the RJ45 connector, blowing that. .

More information on that having done more miles today from that slow charge (2.1kW rate). There's two methods available to assess the capacity gain over the normal charge rate at this part discharged point. The first is miles covered against the percentage capacity the car tells me has been...

It's because the steering is opposite to that of a bicycle. On a trike one steers towards the turn direction. On a bicycle one has to steer slightly away from the turn direction to permit the banking for the turn. Once used to this a trike's steering feels completely wrong. .

It does, but balancing can still mean that any cells below the optimum charge level can be topped up from those fully charged. Doing that can result in the mean charge being slightly below optimum and the charge recommencing with the red light coming back on to top up that slight shortfall...

I've learnt more about lithium battery charging from my 5.5 years of my e-car than in all the experience of pedelecs,,mainly due to having three charging options as I posted before. As said then, the thing that really matters most is charging speed, though it having low density cells is a...

Knocking out the pedestrian below and incinerating the body to get rid of the evidence. ;) .

You're in Az, riding on Embankment Road: Map Link .

At 24 years old in 1961 I bought the 3 bedroom bungalow below for my parents to live in FoC. Large garden, 108 foot frontage with detached garage just out of photo on the right. Near Dunstable Downs: £2650 Today, offers in excess of £395,000

You're in now Les, riding on Beacon Lane: Map link .

That's very misleading, retail price index interest rates, excluding housing. No mortgate back then was at 25%. Even the investment mortgage rate with the Property Owners Building Society that I was using peaked at 9%. Mortgage rates one way or another will adjust to suit what enough people...

That's already happened here in South London. The prices were falling earlier in the year but are now rising sharply again as the shortage bites. And that despite the now higher mortgage rates. .

Not so with all e-cars. The forerunner Nissan Leaf for example has only ever used flat prismatic cells for it's over 12 years on the market, and these sort of cells are what's used in battery electric buses. The Mitsubishi MiEV uses Le50 cells made by Yuasa, and some models latterly use...

The only thing that matters with e-car batteries is speed of charge. For example my third series Nissan Leaf has three options for charging it's 40kWh battery: Rapid from a public charger at up to 50kW rate. Charges an empty battery to 80% in 40 minutes The more this is done, the shorter the...

As matter of interest on the subject of labelling, the 1983 EAPC regulation required a label on every pedelec giving the Manufacturer's name, the Battery voltage and the Motor power output in Watts or Kilowatts. And until the 6th April 2015, that power output was limited to 200 watts according...

You say, but that is not what the law says, so I'm answering the question correctly. If someone is nervous enough to go to all the trouble of labelling to comply with the law, they might as well complete the compliance. But that's for the nervous who are inquiring what the law is. As the rest...

The motor maker AKM is the manufacturer since adding that is what created the pedelec. The law states the label should be on the cycle in a "conspicuous and easily accessible position", not the motor. .

The two label versions were before and after adopting the EU law in full on 6th April 2015. The time gap to 1st January 2016 was by convention to allow manufacturers and traders to clear existing stocks. .

Not if you created the pedelec by adding the motor after 1st January 2016. Then you only need: (aa) the name of the manufacturer of the vehicle (bb) the maximum speed at which the motor can propel the vehicle specified in miles per hour or kilometres per hour, and (cc) the maximum continuous...

Entirely legal so long as the facts reported on the label are true, since this comes under the usage part of the Construction and Use regulation: "(i) fitted with a plate securely fixed in a conspicuous and readily accessible position showing— (aa) the name of the manufacturer of the vehicle...

My personal rule was always to be very close to the speed of the pedestrian I was passing, slow enough to exchange pleasantries, such as a "Thank you" and smile if they moved out of the way. .