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Not so, I've gone deeply into this. First take the real world charge of your chosen e-car in any circumstance, it's way lower than the makers claim. Then consider a fast change station only charges to 80%. Then deduct the round trip to the charging station and deduct that too. Then consider...

Yes, this world is full of fun things to do. How anyone gets bored beats me. ;) .

The Governments own Roads Research Laboratory has shown that at about 26 mph a seat belt kills through the damage to the internal organs. That is 26 mph at the body, not a crash impact speed at the front of the vehicle which can be very much higher. .

Not completely agree, simply because my safety conciousness means appropriate speeds. Falling off a bike at moderate speeds very rarely involves head contact, hands, arms, legs etc could often suffer, but a helmet doesn't help them of course. Riding at 20 mph or more in circumstances where one...

Risks can be hugely exaggerated for those of us who are not accident prone. I've had 22 years of motorcycling without a helmet pre the 1973 compulsion law. Nearly 70 years of cycling never wearing a helmet of any kind. And 29 years of driving all manner of vehicles without a seat belt, plus 34...

I have the same problem and the cost of laying on electricity to my garage totals £6000, which I'm just not prepared to pay on top of the e-car price. .

Keep a close eye on the second hand Leafs, sometimes people really need to shift one. The most amazing price I saw was £10,500 for a flawless minimal mileage seven month old one with owned battery, not leased. £10,000 down in seven months! It's advert appeared on the Thursday afternoon and...

Never sounds good. .

More news on the slump in bicycle sales I mentioned on this link. HMRC report sales are down a third this year to date and that 2017 looks likely to be the worst year for 17 years. That means one million less ordinary bikes will be sold this year, clearly the rise in e-bike sales which is a...

If the UK put a very low tariff on bikes coming here from China instead of the existing 55% total, Dahon and Tern would be so cheap Brompton could take a knock. There's only so much price difference a fold advantage can take before sales slump. Add on a big China style tariff into the EU...

In WTO it's class 1 unprotected markets that get these low rates. Class 2 protected markets like China's own internal bicycle one get the high rates that maintain protection against imports. The question is whether Europe (and Britain? [Brompton]) regard their internal markets as needing...

Hopefully that will be a long time yet, it's surprising what we can do in old age when we set our minds to it. I've just picked up two one tonne loads of loose gravel this afternoon, unloaded them myself and spread it on muddy paths. Friday I did three one tonne trips doing the same and I've...

That 25% is a scary import rate if its true it's two way. ,

Lots can do it, at one time all my South London friends owned cars, but now only two do, and even they mostly use public transport. The rest all use public transport and two use a bike as well. It's not possible for me though, doing what I do, and being 81 years old is a limiting factor. Once...

Finding export rates is easy, finding import rates very difficult with companies like Pitney Bowes making money by selling the necessary documentation. To sell bikes into China under WTO rules means a 25% tariff, since it's part of their class 2 protected market, but to import from China...

Yes, that it won't happen. :) I've got two cars and they are both 4 wheel drive, how naughty can one person be! One is a very compact petrol car with 4wd to cope with adverse conditions in my very hilly area. The other is a 4wd pickup that I use for my voluntary work in rough country...

Ah but there's not that many on the road, and in any case, the rich establishment have always been permitted to run over peasants. .

Don't count chickens, it hasn't happened yet and I'm betting it won't happen in my lifetime. .

Rescind Article 50. .

I've heard that suggestion before. I've no idea whether deliberately induced danger would work in the same way, but it's been shown many times that introduced protection induces less care taken. When we introduced the compulsory seat belt law the government's Roads Research laboratory were...