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Agreed. In fact there is no need for any power limit, a point the European Parliament made long ago. Pedelecs are inately self limiting anyway, since they can only have what a bicycle can cope with in terms of power versus range, Push the power too far and either the range becomes...

Looks like China is well ahead once again. Let's hope RR, who are still only in the design stages, can match China's undoubted ability with nuclear power. I can't help thinking they'll find that more than a little tough to achieve, especially with so many other competitors too, some like the...

In other words, it was the usual nonsense from the anti e-car brigade. The battery for that car does not cost anything remotely like 60,000$. .

No there isn't. How many times do we have to tell you this? The first series Ezee Torq, made in China, comfortably peaked at over 1000 watts and seemed mostly unburstable. And the Cycles Maximus 250 watt rated Pedicab had a Lynch motor capable of continuously delivering 4kW, peaking at...

It is very unlikely you will be able to improve on the 24 KPH anyway, since your Engwe 014 model has obviously been designed for legal compliance. The small rear wheel hub motor, 14" wheel with no room for larger, and fixed shaft drive for pedalling, almost all common options for more powered...

As someone about to enter his 88th year, I hope you do and are still independent then. .

Maybe look far ahead. There could come the day when you get what they think is best for you! :oops: .

Indeed, a Merry Christmas and a Happy and Successful New Year to all. With a special mention for Saneagle, NealH and all the others too many to mention who, with the patience of saints, nurse the unfortunate through their pedelec technical ills. The forum would be far less valuable without...

Just as for EAPCs, there is no actual current rating for 250W LPM, since they have to comply in all respects, (other than the fitted fully acting throttle) to the EAPC regulations and type approval exemption. So the 250W LPM bikes from Wisper have exactly the same motor and controller as their...

Most importantly on the wattage power question, any pedelec that complies with the rules is a bicycle in law and specifically ruled to be NOT a motor vehicle. Other than that for bicycles, they have no law on construction and use, the laws on those that exceed 15.5mph assisted, exceed the 250...

Does it matter? Look at i.c vehicles which are often just as vague but nobody frets about that. For example 50cc Mopeds, just a cubic capacity specifying the vehicle class with no idea of how powerful any one actually is. Cars were similar for many decades. From 1910 there was the RAC...

When the whole European Parliament debated this only a few years ago, that is exactly the conclusion they reached and recommended to the EU Commission. But the 28 member commission, one from each country, and all retired politicians from those countries put out to pasture, rejected it. So...

Embarrassingly so. The very big increase in acceleration and power of my latest series Leaf in 2018 meant delicate tickling of the accelerator pedal among all the other slower traffic. Within two months I got so fed up with this driving "on edge" that I switched from Normal into ECO mode...

The Bing AI answer had a giveaway exposing a flaw common to humans: When they don't know the answer to a question they open with either "That is a very good question" or "That is an interesting question". Either is just playing for time while they rummage around in the grey stuff for an...

I'm very unlikely to reach 90 ! But I've been driven around at times for all my life, just selecting a destination and the vehicles never failing. They're called lifts, or more correctly in the USA, elevators. .

Fully agree, but as I made clear six years ago, I didn't buy mine for any environmental reason since as you say, that would have been pointless. My purchase was solely for specific personal reasons, plus the cost was immaterial to me. And living in a ground floor flat, I have no roof for...

It'll be at least 20 years before that can happen, so at entering my 88th year I couldn't give a damn! .

No they are not, they know of these peripheries but also know whether they have value: Heated seats are worthless and potentially medically harmful. They are just sales gimmicks and I've never had a need to use my unwanted ones in all six years. I-phones or any smartphones are another way of...

The environmentally inclined who buy EVs dont care about such peripheral rubbish, they are only concerned with the main issue. This is the one bit of sense in your post, there will indeed be a lot less car owners in future, as I've long been forecasting. .

Utter nonsense, you are getting them confused with pedelecs. EVs are far more reliable than IC cars and all spares are available. Batteries are proving far longer lived than ever thought at first with ten years or more commonplace and their replacement cost is falling. And I'm sure the...