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But they are the cheap transport the questioner asked for, and more practical than e-bikes in terms of running costs, reliability and weather protection. The environmental interests are costly. (He said having just taken delivery of a new 2018 Nissan Leaf):

"Amazon consistently lost money for its first several years as a public company. It first reported a quarterly profit in the fourth quarter of 2001 and, at $5 million, it barely counted. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has long maintained that investing in future growth is more important than hitting...

In fact she's probably in a very safe position. Boris Johnson is very concerned not to get her out now and the same goes for other contenders. None of them are ready and well placed enough at present, nor do they want to inherit the Brexit mess as it stands. I think she's cast iron until...

Yes, it's perfectly normal for new businesses to fail to make any profit for quite a while, even years. Indeed it's almost the rule, outside the crazy unreal world of the web. .

But none of that is relevant to the point I made, that in a protectionist environment favouring the existing big boys, innovation can create a successful newcomer. Nor is Tesla changing their business in future relevant, we'll be seeing the widespread death of the car as personal transport...

How many times must I point out that the EU can only support members internal affairs, they can't govern directly. They are doing what they can by financially supporting members moves to reduce unemployment, but they can't impose that. That's due to the intact sovereignty of member countries...

This is nonsense. FIAT's most efficient domestic plant is in the traditionally poor Southern Italy thanks to EU grants. Nissan is in deprived Sunderland thanks to EU grants supporting ours. Europe is littered with other examples like these, the EU doing exactly what you say it should. .

Perhaps a government then will then repeat the former answer, National Service to soak up a few million of the unemployed. That would be an even bigger shock, not being able to use their smartphones while square bashing! .

I'm saying yes to those questions. What Wisper has said has been said repeatedly for years by very many employers trying hard to get young people to work for them. The crop picking example is the most obvious. Even when they are able to get some UK young to tackle the work they often prove...

Indeed, every way has its disadvantage. But innovation does let newcomers in, who would have thought any new motor manufacturer could come out of nowhere against the world's giants like GM, Ford, Toyota, VW and Daimer-Benz? But Tesla is here as a fact and here to very much stay, with all the...

That's what mopeds are for, available cheaply enough for that job as they've long been. .

The whole of Europe was our market. We just had to be good enough to sell into it, like the other countries I quoted. .

Agreed, meaning we have to become lean enough. Another way of saying we have to learn to live within our means to lower standards. .

But there's another way of looking at this. If within the EU with this protectionism, we could design and manufacture e-bikes to sell into the whole European market competitively. Of course that's always been possible inside the EU as the Germans, Dutch, French, Spanish, Italians and...

Welcome to the forum Erbs, hope you enjoy your investigations and get to enjoy riding an e-bike soon. .

At one time I would have agreed, but I think he's fatally wounded himself too many times now. He's been a terrible Foreign Secretary constantly undermining his PM, and his performance as London Mayor is now exposed to be one of utter incompetence, wasting huge sums on white elephants. For...

Which sums up why I voted Remain. For many decades our governments have proved to be incompetent. So much so that I had, and still have, no faith that they could even begin to make a success of Brexit. How could anyone imagine that the likes of Jacob Rees Mogg and Boris Johnson could lead us...

Like lots of sensible actions. ;) .