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Clearly a lot more research needs to be done and Covid could haunt us for many years yet. .

I've long maintained this, especially since ICE fuel tanks are situated across the rear of the car. .

That is interesting if it can be translated to here. However, it will be most interesting if higher capacity batteries can be made for the earliest low capacity models which have a limited s/h market. .

As your "wink smiley" emoticon indicated. .

It is unheard of as far as Nissan are concerned. No Nissan Leaf has ever suffered a traction battery fire and they are rightly very proud of that record. On September 1st 2015 a Leaf in Texas suffered a fire in it's normal 12 volt car battery circuit under the bonnet and burnt out in the way...

I'm sure Nissan would deal with that at present since it's important to them that there's no fire problems. It would be a very rare scenario though since it sits inside a form of chassis frame which is part of the rigid passenger centre cell of the vehicle, the blue parts which are under the seats:

The Leaf trained mechanics at their dealers can do that now. I have one at my local dealers, Ancaster, Croydon who I've chatted with. And there's also Nissan's own dealership in West London. They can take out cell banks and replace them if a cell is suspect for example, the whole battery is...

Exactly, as I posted above, e-cars are far from new any more and the public need to accept that they and the facilities they need are often already established. Except, see this link. It's got to be green enough and with policy being towards rechargeable electric for vehicles, there won't be...

Agreed, but it's not environmentally moral when "grey" hydrogen is used as will be happening still even in 25 years time. Despite further planned large expansion of wind and solar, there won't be the surplus of green electricity after road transport's usage to produce green hydrogen in large...

But it uses hydrogen which is a major problem: The International Energy Agency who work with governments and industry in the carbon neutral plans is planning this: "In 2040, half of the fuel used in aviation is to be low-emission. In 2045, according to the step-by-step plan, 435 megatonnes of...

I don't see these problems, Tesla's backup is without equal in the e-car world. Despite the small number of their cars about in the UK at present, they have 18 stores and 12 service locations in the UK alongside a network of 50 Supercharger locations which is rapidly expanding. With the...

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I don't think Elon does small though. Their new battery plant in the USA is a monster and he seems to have firmly come down in favour of Germany for his European production. I can't see how a Tesla assembly plant to supply just their UK market makes sense when there's already car carrying...

Still a bit dodgy I'm afraid. Even kit pedelecs are supposed to go through IVA in a limited form called "250 LPM", standing for Low Powered Moped. That's universally ignored since they are so obviously bicycles, so a blind eye is turned, but of course that's not true of a Honda Cub. And...

Not that easy Mark, the insurers won't accept it for road use without type approval and neither will the DVLA to register it. The Cub's original approval for road use is voided by a major conversion such as this. For one-offs like this there is IVA (Individual or Single vehicle approval)...

More bad news for our manufacturing economy, the prospects for a Tesla factory hinted at a while ago for Britain are rapidly diminishing . First the battery factory went to Berlin, now their new car production factory at Grünheide, Germany, shown below, which will see its first cars rolling...

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Are chips halal? Given the record of their namesakes overseas, french fries wouldn't be. .

More likely a Mossad spy undercover with a box of matches. It is/was a supply vessel so would have additional fuel storage tanks on board. .

Thanks for the link. The second pedelec I bought had a warning in its manual, "Must not be ridden in rain". Did make me wonder why they were exporting it to Britain. .