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Until such time as we leave the EU then (which looks increasingly likely) we should be looking to reduce VAT to 5% on ebikes and earmark that revenue to go straight back into supporting the ebike industry, in the form of grants, and infrastructure investment. If the government really is serious...

I don't commute as such, as I run a business and work from home..but I do travel daily to the Post sorting office on my bike, which is about 5 miles round trip. Takes me about 25 minutes..but would be a lot longer without power!!

Absolutely bang on. We should be lobbying our MP's hard to make this happen. It makes total sense really they have everything to gain from the growth of the industry and the loss of VAT would be relative small in the great scheme of things? It's ridiculous that for anyone importing bikes, the...

Related Story I don't know if anyone has noticed this related story posted in News section last month.. This bit got my attention: Maybe we can learn a thing or two from them, and find out how businesses find the scheme..also see if they're interested in being added into our national directory.

Haha totally bizarre!

Interesting theory there and you might be right. There are huge vested interests in car manufacturers resisting change and keeping their existing business model intact as you suggest. I remember one pilot scheme in the US for electric cars were very was received by the public but the...

Hi all, This poll is to gage support among the forum community for a project which is in the planning stages for establishing a nationwide network of charging point businesses where ebike owners can recharge their batteries free of charge. We would like to know whether you would find such...

Thanks Indalo! I should of posted the URL for voting a few more times...silly me! Here it is again for anyone who missed it or can't find it. Shame I didn't spot that facility on here, could of saved myself a bit of work. I've just setup a separate poll on this site to gage support for the...

Why aren't ebike manufacturers and related businesses getting EU grants and state support? Perhaps some are? Surely as well as supporting the car industry (which granted is important to the UK economy) they should be promoting an industry which reduces the amount of fossil fuel cars on the...

If anyone wants to change their vote for a name in light of new names added today, just send me a message or post onto this thread and I will change it.

Looks very straightforward doesn't it.

Ok agreed, really the cost of providing stickers is going to be relatively tiny anyway... we can do a batch of small batch of 500 stickers which will keep us going for a long time. As for the cost of mailing them... we can either ask businesses to send us a SAE, or just mail them out regionally...

I've added freecharge to the list of suggested names for voting! You can cast your vote here.. Please only vote once!

That is a good point lemmy and something we will have to monitor very closely via the website. Ideally we want users of the scheme to login and tell us where they are using facilities and for how long etc, and if they made a purchase etc.. this will allow us to gage what kind of financial burden...

Good idea about businesses printing their own signs. What I will do is provide some artwork in different sizes in PDF format or something, so businesses with decent colour laser printers or whatever, can just print off a copy at whatever size they deem appropriate. That would help us cut down...

Thanks Penny, appreciate your help and enthusiasm! It really is a joint team effort so we're hoping to get more volunteers like yourself to spread the word or help out with the website and running of the scheme. Our plan is to make the site very easy to use once we start getting charge points...

Some good ideas and suggestions to think about here Indalo. Freecharge is a great name, the word "free" is always an attention grabber on a sign. But the problem is, we can't guarantee the scheme will always be free... some years down the line if the ebike industry really grows and people are...

Great to see more input and comments as people return to the forum. Critical comments and possible problems we might encounter equally as welcome!

Thanks Trevor for these suggestions I added them to the vote poll.

No probs thanks for letting me know, done :)