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You could anywhere in Europe and the EU, except Great Britain, Northern Ireland and Sweden. The other 26 EU countries know what being a bicycle in law means. .

Actually proud of their high cycling rate. The 14 millions versus 37 millions is urban sprawl, in part a boundaries matter, rather like London's but on a much bigger scale. Our official population is 9.1 million which is false for known reasons, chiefly underreporting a highly mobile...

Agreed in general, but of course this is Yamaha.eu, code for Netherlands where everyone cycles and getting on for half of all bicycle sales are pedelecs. So it could well work there, or in Tokyo where cycling is very popular among its official 14 millions but in truth more like 37 million...

It has to be administered or someone could wreck it. You're in now, riding on Whitchurch Drive, National Cycle Route 81: Map Link .

She'd have been wiser not to pull alongside or at least stay behind his indicator so she could see he'd switched it on to start his turn left. This was a major subject in here during the 2010s when we had lots of these nearside truck turn deaths with almost all being women cyclists, despite...

Not with BYD overtaking Tesla. It's BYD's Seal model that has leapt past Tesla's Model 3 both sides of the pond, and from £45640 here for example it's more than Tesla's Model 3 at £42990. There's probably more to this than price though, eventually some of the mud would have to stick to Tesla...

I don't know the precise details, but as so often is the case, I'm sure these were motivated by EU protectionism, making the market tougher for China et al. Basically they are as said, defeating such as dongles by recording such uses making it much more difficult to break the basic rules...

You are a born dictator, wanting everyone to conform to your opinion of what is right. We once had more of your sort of clear and enforced legislation and in the late 1950s it completely killed what had briefly been a highly successful assisted cycling market. Then that strictness went on...

Agreed. I actually published a 2009 full version of EN15194 in my Pedelec Law - The Details thread back on 21st May 2020: https://www.pedelecs.co.uk/forum/threads/pedelec-law-the-details.37594/post-558483 In that the continuous rate power definition is on Page 15 of it below...

No problem. The DfT have confirmed that the usual 10% tolerance on speed limits applies here to, so up to 17.05mph is legal. It follows that the motor can be assisting that pedalling at 17mph. .

I don't know why that hasn't been attempted John, but I do know the huge effort that has been put into all aspects of research into all types of e-car batteries and charging from circa1990 to the present. So there must be good reasons why it doesn't attract. Asking Google: "why aren't...

Chargers can't be uplugged until the charge is switched off by the initiator. The plug and socket are locked together. For example,I can switch off the charge with a switch on my locked car dashboard or with a switch on my remote control, or with my contactless card that initiated the charge...

Excellent post overall, but you are wrong on lamp post and bollard chargers for two reasons. Firstly they are not fast chargers, they are slow overnight chargers. Secondly, as part of EV planning, the upgrading of street lighting has been widely used as an opportunity to dig up and rewire the...

It's not me who is blinkered. Why are those EVangelists using EVs if they are so unsuitable and why didn't they do their homework? They don't need to have them and the country doesn't need them to. Repeating once again, at our usual replacement rate of 1.4 million a year it will take 23...

You really are funny at times! Asking "who pays for that" after complaining about the standing charge. You do of course, that is what the standing charge is for, the infrastructure, and your area network supplier does the digging up etc. Depends what is meant by Fast. Most EV home...

For over a year now by law all new chargers have accepted Contactless and by the end of 2024 all public chargers will have to by law in Britain. And you think this is a valid argument! Why would anyone with a couple of working brain cells needing to drive from Southend to Manchester once a...

Oh dear, oh dear, you could hardly be more wrong. Now try adding the 900,000 home fast chargers to the 53,000 public ones and you'll see that we have simultaneous charging for all the 950,000 BEVS we have, right now! Now consider that 85% of all charging is done at home, why wouldn't it at as...

This is nonsense from The Guardian, the truth is the opposite: The growth in the charging infrastructure here in Britain for example has been increasingly outpacing the car sales growth over the last three years: "At the end of November 2023, there were 53,029 electric vehicle charging points...

Why do you keep responding with always this same grouse? You aren't telling us anything, we all know this stuff already and I've long been acknowledging it. The only thing that matters is that it's going to happen anyway, unless we somehow make it impossible. I can't see that happening...

Yes there is some fake, but it's nothing like the majority of the figures I gave. Even their economy couldn't stand that. And the bus numbers are also real, they are all that many Chinese cities are even allowed to buy and use. I know they are viable because the same BYD and similar buses...