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Same problem here on cyclepaths, roadies never use them on their narrow tyred bikes for these reasons. .

Unless it's a cat moving it's kittens to a new location, possibly a feral cat. Cats of all species move their offspring by carrying one at a time if they feel threatened in any way. .

I found a respectable Twizy at only £2.5 k, so car cost is not an issue. The owners on your second link are misunderstanding the position. Any battery in any piece of equipment is not legally a spare part, it's a consumable. Renault are not obliged in law to supply for sale as a replacement...

I sympathise, my prostate condition is merely BPH which has no seated pain penalty. I think personal weight comes into the suspension issue to a fair degree. I'm well under 70 kilos and am quite happy to raise my weight slightly from the saddle over expected bumps. Being up on my legs seems...

I agree with much of this and have the view that ULEVs in hybrid form are most likely the future in the shorter term. I also think that batteries are no longer the problem they once were. I don't agree on the potential of electricity used in refining to supply the needs of pure battery EVs...

But in tne UK they'll still be on the roads in very large numbers for at least another 30 years. That's the minimum time I estimate it will take us to build enough new generating capacity for over half our cars to be replaced by pure EVs, and that's being very optimistic, given our poor past...

I also found the Twizy attractive and could easily make good use of one for much of my driving, though still needing my ic car. I'd still have the problem of no charging facility though, but the real killer for me is that at my age I suffer the cold so badly. It made me give up on motorbikes...

Battery fires aside, it could be they gave up on e-bikes for the same reason our Royal Mail gave up it's plans for 16,000 of them. That was the rapid changes in the pattern of mail being delivered. They managed to cope with the huge increases in junk mail, but the measures for that couldn't...

I struggled to find data on this but found some sources suggesting the 70% gross figure, but I didn't retain any links. I didn't come across that RAC figure, but it seems low. Looking at pages 36 to 38 I can't see the 25% you refer to and the figures in the graphs don't seem to support that...

Even if they were able to, and I don't share your optimism on both factors, what sort of a solution is it? Not a complete one for some reasons: It still leaves all the dieel engines used for transport, the filthiest of them all and most not conceivably replaceable by EVs or for many by PHEVs...

While it's true that most journeys are shorter that 80 miles, true of me too, many of us have longer ones to undertake. In my case an intermittent 140 miles each way not well covered with suitable charging points and worst of all, none at all near the other end, leaving me arriving with no...

The position is far worse that I thought at one time, so I can't see battery EVs becoming a majority of cars within any foreseeable future. Only some 70% of car owners have offstreet parking and a large proportion of that parking is detached from their home with no acceptable cost electricity...

I don't know the specific cause Mike, but can guess that it was almost certainly as I described since that is by far the most common cause. There is an added factor I didn't mention above though, the constitution of the cathode. Worst for instability were the original cobalt cathodes, causing...

I like the ideas of having an electric car so much that I've been tracking the possibiliy for over five years and have again gone deeply into the subject recently. But that doesn't mean I will pretend the disadvantages don't exist, they do, they are very real and they make ownership completely...

It's a big pain and even th odd two or three who've done it have mainly concluded it's not worth it. Currrently we still have the old low and higher powered moped type approval and SVA rules in force, but they are currently due for change into the new L1e-A and L1e-B classes. The new type...

Not just illegal e-bikes. They've also ridden at least two illegal self balancing machines on the London roads and pavements, one a monowheel, and ridden a stand-on motor only scooter-like trike. It's obvious they have no idea what the law is. .

Probably based on that being considered a good level for safe storage. A bit pointless though, since lithium battery fires and explosions almost always result from inadequate quality control in manufacture and can occur regardless of charge level. Lithum doesn't and shouldn't exist in metallic...

My London Borough of Croydon is also introducing 20 mph limits in residential roads and currently intend them to cover the whole north of the borough soon, an area of some 200,000 residents. They are doing it by consultation. Few people are aware of the Street Playgrounds Act, 1938 which...

Many British e-bikers agree that 20 mph would be a better limit, but outside of the USA, 25 kph (15.5mph) has become a world standard now so is unlikely to ever change. This discrepancy arises from commonly practiced bike riding speeds, many countries such as the Netherlands for example riding...

The BMS does do the balancing in the late stages of a charge but on results doesn't always do a perfect job. In fact if the charger is left plugged in when charge is complete, the charge can restart if any cells are detected dropping low. Another problem is that the BMS is often powered from...