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If you will be charging overnight at home using the car's built in charge timers to get the lowest price period, it may not be worth buying solar panels. People don't realise just how much surplus electricity we have at night. Some of it is sold at negative pricing to larger users to get rid...

I didn't keep the link but its one of the popular ones on accident stats. No doubt those figures were derived from the overall accident stats and cycling and pedestrian mileages are bound to be estimates rather than actual. So take those with a pinch of salt, only the car and motorcycle...

It's not their nervousness, it's the law. Here's the exemption from being motor vehicles that we enjoy, note the words "progressively reduced": Pedal cycles with pedal assistance which are equipped with an auxiliary electric motor having a maximum continuous rated power of less than or equal...

Not so, the competition is too great for that, particularly since they came far too late to the party. This must be the most widely misunderstood subject of our times. The toughest competition is from home fast charging since most e-car buyers for a very long time will mainly be those who can...

Yes, certain to be at least double the price, but at present sales of new petrol motorcycles will be permitted until 2035, so many years before being forced onto these. Of course all electric two wheelers still have a big range problem due to battery size and weight limitations, compared to...

Well Dame Cressida Dick followed Boris's example, saying "I have no intention of resigning. I intend to stay and correct the problems in the force". Hours later after meeting Mayor Sadiq Khan face to face she resigned! So that's the current trend for Guto Hari to follow, since it appears only...

That is a risk we have to take by law, hitting a pedestrian isn't a legal option, even if it means killing ourselves instead. This is similar to the rules for an aircraft pilot. Faced with a real risk to the innocent on the ground using an alternative which might just come off, the pilot has...

I presume your 14.6 mph is a typo, it is of course 15.6 mph assist speed. Otherwise I'm afraid I have to disagree: 1) A higher assist speed will not help with wind or slopes. Only more power can do that. This is why the S Class high speed e-bikes failed at first, limited to only 250 watts...

Yes, I agree. But Western resolve doesn't last well as all the present sanction busting shows. Germany and some others in Europe are in favour of making peace with Russia, it's only the USA and some ex Warswaw pact countries like Poland who are against that and they will always be enemies...

I don't know why he is hesitating, he didn't when with a violent message he taught Georgia not to consider NATO membership. Of course he should have made his move when the USA was still involved in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria, an unusual tactical mistake for him. It's still a good time for...

The worrying thing is that Lavrov was so certain she would be unprepared that he was able to launch his trap with such confidence that she'd fall into it. In fact I've little doubt that Truss was thinking of the Donetz and Luhansk Oblasts of Ukraine's civil war region in their east and hastily...

This sort of diplomatic incompetence is the the British norm in modern times. It faithfully echoes when David Davis was our Brexit negotiator up against the highly skilled Michel Barnier for the EU, Barnier complaining that Davis came to the talks without any preparation and carrying no papers. .

By convention PMs usually get a knighthood, but it will be a very long time before Johnson gets one, if at all. Tony Blair's knighthood had to wait 17 years after the previous one one for John Major and he won three elections and was considered by many to be a successful PM, despite the...

Summed up in the jingle about Jolly Jack Tar and the international collision regulations at sea: "He was right, dead right, as he sailed along But he's just as dead as if he'd been wrong" .

Absolutely not so, that seemed to be the media view but they don't try cases. The judge made the point very clear that Charlie Alliston should have taken avoiding action, stressing that an audible warning was not a defence. There was no legal action taken on his not having adequate brakes...

Indeed, the point Oyster makes is exemplified in the case of the privatised Thames Water supplying Greater London. Owned in Australia when privatised, the owners broke it into SEVEN different divisions, each with it's own hypothetical HQ, accounting, profitability reporting and all finally...

Every vehicle user has the responsibility to take avoiding action, sounding an audible warning does not qualify, as a recent case showed when the cyclist received an 18 month custodial sentence for killing a foolish pedestrian who stepped th wrong way. The blame was his since he only shouted a...

Yes, although the pedestrian had the responsibility for his own safety in this instance, the vehicle user has the responsibility to take the necessary avoiding action. Sounding a horn or any other audible warning doesn't qualify as avoiding action, braking and/or swerving does. In this case...

The quantities of nuclear waste from either fission or fusion are not a problem, they are very small compared with the wastes from burning fossil fuels and plant materials. There's only a problem of where to put the nuclear wastes for future safety. Essentially this is no different a problem...

We with many years of experience individually and combined are all saying there is no need to change your battery. Don't take any notice of Volt, they are just covering themselves against any eventuality by wanting you to spend unnecessarily. .