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Mainly exotica, hardly electrifying the market, (pun intended). .

Only in a controlled zone, and they tend to be more in business centres than residential areas. The latter when they have parking control consist only in stretches where parking is permitted with a residents permit on display. The total space there is usually less than necessary, not marked in...

True, but for an e-commuter needing to charge every day, it won't be long before they hit the problems I mentioned. Our circumstances down here are very different, we tend to only get multiple charge points when they are the 13 amp types taking all night, fast chargers are almost always...

And I hope it continues like that to a long and rewarding life. I think it's clear that not every Impulse 2 motor fails and yours may be one of those that will be reliable. I suspect the rider and riding style plays a part too, some suffering multiple unit failures while others suffer none. .

Bike makers at Eurobike will be targeting kids from 11 years old or even 8 years old in one case as a new e-MTB market with reduced power. I think that's great news. But in the excessively governed UK that can't happen because we have a ridiculous 14 years minimum age limit. The fun will be...

Norman Tebbit, taking the cue from his father. .

Just (!) theory. What happens if: It's already occupied by someone else having just started to charge, bearing in mind most chargers take 4 hours or more. Ditto with a rapid charger, do I hang around the half to threequarters of an hour in the hope they will come back promptly, that's far...

No he's not. We've lived harmoniously enough with mainland Europe to have joint design and construction projects, millions living and working in others countries, many millions holidaying both ways, millions choosing to retire in other countries, choosing to manufacture in other countries. All...

I had that dual battery system on my boat but couldn't be bothered on a car. I didn't swap the car for that reason, it just went after three years in the usual way, during which time I just used it more frequently but had the jump starter for the odd occasion. .

I accept the point you're making, but it really goes against the grain to do that, especially since remaining is no longer a realistic prospect. For a Remainer the two best options are, let the Brexiters wreck the country and then say "I told you so", or emigrate. .

No we were emphatically not ok before we joined! That's the Brexiters problem, all too often being blissfully unaware of our serious decline over the decades before joining. The myth that annoys me is that it's the older people who support Brexit, That's rubbish as this thread's older...

Not three phase, just a normal 22kW domestic installation to the garage. In England the network suppliers have monopolies, in my area it's UK Power Networks. They are the only ones permitted to lay on the basic supply to the garage and external meter box. Their cost depends on distance, at X...

Not that easy. The most guilty car in this discharge respect was a Nissan first generation Nissan Qashqai and most drain due to it's sensory alarm system. No battery, no alarm, not realistic of course! As it was in a remote garage a solar panel solution not very practical and also entails...

Latest exaggeration about e-car market prospects. Parkers have just published a newsletter forecasting this: "Consider this the calm before the storm, and by 2020, we’ll probably not be able to move for electric cars, let alone plug-in hybrids". Not able to move for pure electric cars within...

My best period for that was when I first retired. Over a 7 year period I drove some 400 miles a year, often not using the car for three months at a time. My unpowered cycling was up to 5000 miles a year. Cars back then (1990s) would still start after three months standing still, today's...

Some try to avoid that by terming themselves "lower middle class". Of course Ted Heath is partly to blame for the middle class pretensions. Recognising how much society had changed he gave his famous Selsdon conference speech about "Selsdon Man", as opposed to the "Man on the Clapham Omnibus"...

For which read simplistic. The subject is so complex it cannot begin to be covered in simple terms for the electorate. Which is why they should never have been allowed to vote on something they had no hope of adequately understanding. .

Wishful thinking, that isn't going to happen for nearly all of us in a foreseeable future. Even here in London the local supermarkets only have 13 amp charge points that take from 12 to 15 hours to charge, so they never get used. A tiny minority of often quite distant locations have 4 to 5...

Also on my own so also looked at the Twizy, but quickly ruled out for English winters and street parking. I wish Renault would make a larger battery version, enclosed and secure with heater demister facilities. That would greatly expand it's market. .

Historic suburbs maybe, but things change. I live on a 1960s/70s built estate with some 3000 homes, mainly houses, and about 6000 population. Every one of us has a garage or in a few cases a car port, but none of us have an attached garage or parking space next to our homes and none of the...