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The EU put 17.5% to 35% on Chinese EVs depending on manufacturers. If BYD come here, they will have to bring their battery production line as well to satisfy rules of origin.

How will you control such machine? If your aim is to sell road legal bikes, then why would you want to make illegal bikes or help those who want to break the law?

Total sales ev+ice are static or growing very slowly for a few years now. If people buy evs then factories that build ice will have to reduce their workforce. Until now ice are cheaper to buy. It's the other way from 2025. Sales of evs will accelerate. Just look at MG5, Zeekr 007, BYD sea lion...

The regs don't mention the word capability. you have electrical sockets and mains conductors rated for 240V yet capable of doing the job at 10 times that, so what's the difference between rating a motor 250W while it's capable of delivering twice that and rating a mains socket at 240V while it...

it's due for review next year. At the moment, there is no import duty on Chinese BEVs. I am truly tempted to import one for personal use. It will be good if we could get the Chinese to set up BEV production here.

Why do you want to give them priority of police and court time? Even if the court put them in temporary detention prior to hearing, how many can be put in jail in Telford? I know of a case in Southend-On-Sea, the victim has to wait 10 years for justice. The guy got sent 500 miles away to serve...

no and no. The wind has died down since yesterday but it may pick up again. What they need is rain.

They have fires virtually every year but they usually are isolated fires, not whipped up by 60mph to 100mph Santa Ana wind. We have in France the mistral in winters, the problem with forest fires is very similar. Firemen and bombardier planes can't work as much as people anxiously want them to...

it's up to the police to enforce the law. Why should enforcement be passed on to manufacturers?

That is insensitive comments if I could speak frankly. They are clearly irrelevant when you see the amount of embers flying around the entire area in wind up to 100mph. Do you want fire fighting pilots to fly in those conditions? I still remember that beautiful stretch of the coastal highway...

It is illegal because the manufacturer wants to sell it as high speed motor. Typically, Chinese manufacturers rate their motor based on the average speed the motor will deliver for a typical user. If the motor is capable of averaging 30mph, they would call it 1500W. For road legal motors...

If this were true, none of the Bosch, yamaha , shimano etc would ever be put on sale.

The word AND in the line is important. If you don't derestrict your bike, there is nothing to fear.

Trump just tossed a few more balls into the air to divert media attention from talking about what he promised his voters he will deliver on day 1 because he can't deliver what he promised. He won't be able to force peace in Ukraine or peace in middle east or reduce inflation or close the...

Charles Moir was the managing director of his company, Computer Concepts Ltd. Rumours had it that in 1981, he wrote WordWise over a weekend, the best selling software for the Beeb. It was reputed to earn him a cool £8 mil, an enormous sum of money back in those days. I visited their HQ in Hemel...

Charles Moir at Computer Concepts would have had a field day if he knew what was going between the boys on at Marconi.

Unless you ride like a lunatic, I don't think anyone would worry about you going over 15.5mph by one or two mph while pedalling. The problem is with those who derestrict their bike then use the throttle to go faster than they can pedal.

No milkfloat can do 0 to 60 in under 6 seconds, especially for the price 20k to 30k. The fact that VW Group, GM , Ford, etc now make a good effort to make and sell EVs is proof that they are decided, sell EVs or die.

Nobody got fined yet and sales of evs are increasing at the rate of knots. GM reckon they can beat Tesla may be as soon as next year.

That article was published 13 years ago (Aug 2011), well before Baroness Jay's report.