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I didn't realize that cigars were fashion accessories.Enon Musk eat your heart out...

I recall having this exact conversation before whether on this thread or another on this forum. What is it one is seeking to maximize? Individual freedom, energy conservation, roadside width, ones finances, .. depending on which the answer will be different!.

There is no law stopping any competitor bringing Bosch to court. Bosch can with justifiable reason claim health and safety as a reason. Whether it would succeed is another matter. Bosch have presumably patents, intellectual property and copyrights to the shapes , connectors and other...

You are correct of course, post Brexit, the UK has not been planning on tarriffs from SA. This is consistent with their other actions. What is evident is that they have been not planning on anything ,good bad or indifferent. The "negotiations" with the EU remain a shambles, with significant...

Oxygen, we do get your point, it is possible to get everything cheaper somewhere, particularly if you reduce the wages of those producing it. The EU is both a trading block, the largest in the world, and a social entity with what many, myself included, believe to be laudible principles. It is...

As a newly old age pensioner and therefore entitled to a free travel card , I am revelling in the freedom it can afford me if I choose to go into the city. There are functions that at present there a personal car delivers better than alternatives, shopping , urgent journeys, going to the dump...

Agreed.. but that is just a matter of organisation or lack of it. Single flow path, robotic dispenser of package of grit etc. People like Amazon can construct full logistic warehouses with robotic handlers. As with everything else, planning and compromise are necessary. I have visited Intel...

I think they would assume a bank of batteries at each depo and a quick drop in replacement... Just the job to bring bankers and tycoon media publishers from Heathrow to the Shard or wherever they go... The parachute isn't actually a problem, think more like giant airbag. Apparently 100 ft...

Hence the parachute?

I'm sorry flecc, but I'm with woosh on this topic. We already have driverless vehicles, . What added value a train driver brings is questionable. In a era when we can send non human controlled vehicles to the edge of the solar system, it is feasible . The requirements to segregate traffic...

The velocoptor2 displayed in this year's CES , which has support from Intel, is interesting. An 18 propeller two seater drone like machine with a range of 27 miles and half an hour duration . 3kw motor per prop. The intelligence from the Intel software makes the device simple to operate and...

I suspect that you are on a hiding to nothing. The additional wiring and contacts are , as far as I can make out a communications system, possibly canbus and are used by the brains , which I believe are located in the motor assembly, to control the entire system. I believe that the activa...

If the controller drove the motor for 12 miles, your MOSFETs are still ok. They do not believe in life after death. The odd readings have to do with trying to trying to measure semiconductors with multimeters. Not going into it here, but the resistance depends on the test voltage coming from...

Are these aluminium frames?,if so your best bet would be getting in touch with a motor factors who do alloy wheel repairs. If it is steel, any welder or the local tech school. .. but the paint nearby will be destroyed. Depending on the severity, an epoxy resin glue might solve the problem.

There has been a lot of comment over the years on this forum about range and battery size and truthfulness. Put simply the range is infinite if you don't turn on the power. The Bosch website has a calculator giving range depending on terrain, weight, battery, road surface etc. While it is...

Where can you get the cheap overalls?

Would that not give you reason to pause and think, whether one would wish to be inside the strong organisation which can do that in order to protect their own or be on the outside hoping to get favourable treatment for Scottish whisky?. If Spanish farmers are unemployed, then total revenue...

It really only matters how quickly transitions occur. As humans we can very quickly adopt and that which was abhorrent can become the new normal. How long has it taken a belief in a creator, which fueled political economic and legal structures for many thousands of years , to be replaced, in...

Back on track re brexit.. Brittany ferries have just announced a direct Ireland Spain ferry link... Passengers and freight. Leaving out the type of pr guff companies feel obligated to use , I suspect that a strong reason is to prevent the anticipated cumulative Brexit delays of traversing the UK...

The last modern enterprise sold by the UK was Arm holdings to the Japanese.This was just post referendum. In time I suspect this will be seen as a watershed moment.. when the UK gave up any leadership position it had in Engineering. Arm in a real sense was the crown jewel... The guts powering...