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I fully agree that parts of the North are very poorly covered at the moment, but down here it is very different. Because as I've posted to you before, this is where the money and the EVs are. In many strategic locations there are charging stations with multiple units per location, 8, 12 or 20...

This doesn't convince me, particularly as RR are trailing NuScale at least and there are so many other rivals. Nor do I believe SMRs are more environmentally friendly, the marine power units have been quite the opposite. .

Of course, a warm welcome to the forum. As well as the Electric Bike forum we also have a Speed Pedelecs forum to cover places where the law is different from the European one. .

No, because we simply cannot supply enough cars. It's not like e-scooters, it will take at least twenty years from now to replace all our ICE cars, so there's no point in attracting everyone when we cannot remotely fulfil. Good, as I said just above. Because the slower electric chargers and...

That is just silly, saying it is usually where you fill up, that is with an ICE car. Changing to an EV means just that, change, such as changing how and where you fill up. Or if e-cars don't suit you at the moment, don't buy one yet. By 2030 you will be much better suited with many more...

Driffield is a small town, 13k population with six rapid chargers. What's wrong with that since I doubt they have that many e-cars and probably have home chargers if they do. So those six public charger are for visitors, and how many visitors will 0.002% of the country have at any one time...

Nonsense, what sort of unrealistic fantasy world do you live in? As my last post showed there are plenty of chargers and proportionally to the only 600K fully e-cars the supply is OTT in much of the country. .

Try pulling the other one, it's got bells on it. And the quote of 25% charge points out of action was utter bunkum. That has never ever happened. Below is the Zap map of Sheffield, Doncaster, Hull and Bridlington. Every charge point with pink on it is a rapid charger with the CCS connector...

I'm not missing the point. You are, many points in fact: Most of the investment has to come from the private sector, so they install the points where most of the traffic will be and where people are affluent enough to have EVs. That is essential to get some return, though none of them are...

And coal. ;) .

Agreed, but definitely not now when we are at our most vulnerable. Long ago would have been good, particularly during the North Sea oil boom. But otherwise not until we get into a much more stable future electricity supply position. That's likely to be a long way off thanks to the needs to...

Now you really aren't thinking, there will be no bite. ICE ban on buying starts 2030 or 2035 for hybrids. Average car life in the UK 23 years. Do you really think there won't be enough charging points everywhere by 2058 after another 35 years of increasing their numbers at up to 33% a...

My eyes are the open ones. I sometimes wonder why I bother, I've covered all this before in answers to you. There are inevitably twerps buying EVs when they are totally unsuited for what they want to do. Let them suffer their foolishness. Meanwhile, the shortage of EVs with year long...

While killing the most important bird, EDF. If you want to stop Hinckley Point and Sizewell C coming online, that's a good way of doing it. Not to mention the ill effect on the other vital investors, such as those building the wind farms and tidal sources .

Of course we try to change things there, as we have been trying for well over half a century But where change is concerned we are many times better at failing than succeeding. And of course there is the irony that while we want to get them off bicycles and into motor vehicles, we are trying...

How many times do I have to explain we in Britain are not short of electricity for e-cars? It will be well over a decade from now before we will have made and supplied enough EVs to use our present night time surplus of current, and overnight charging is the dominant form of ev charging of...

A good EV design is no use without electricity and Africa's supplies are appallingly unreliable**. That's why they use unassisted bicycles as both taxis and for goods deliveries. Many parts of India are as bad, so these third world countries will be the last to switch to EVs. **Afrobarometer...

As Lancslass says, bar end mirrors that plug in are the most popuar and very good. I use the Cateye BM500 model. You just need to cut away the end of the rubber grip to insert it and it won't interfere with the throttle.

Indeed, a perfect summary of their respective presences. .

Correction. If you agree with the view the law took, not my view which just happens to coincide. Certainly inadvisable without complex precautions. I disagree. Firstly since it is proven to work extremely well in many other countries, most notably in Japan where cyclists often have to use...