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Being in the back wheel sometimes means it's also the speed sensor, signalling the assist speed cutoff, so serving two purposes. .

But that's not acting for the public. The CPS lawyers act for the police when they ask for clarity, and their central HQ also acts for the government when there are national problems like this hoverboard issue. But their offices won't be interested in answering individual inquiries from the...

Not exemptions, but presumably because there are a number of exceptions in that law. For example drain cleaning vehicles. It's widely disobeyed as well of course. .

Like most people it seems. Twice now Mercedes have tried to sell an e-bike and neither attracted enough customers and have been discontinued. .

That again comes down to the position of a fitted engine with emissions, used while in motion. And it might not even have to be while in motion, another law might come into play when stationary. Stationary idling is an offence under section 42 of the Road Traffic Act 1988. .

Normally it has to be a solicitor giving advice, but in these obscure areas they would be likely to say only a court ruling would suffice. The CPS won't help, that's not their function. In their full name of Crown Prosecution Service, they were conceived to rule on the legality of any...

Judging from previous examples, I think a test case is what it would have to come down to, since the DfT refuses to rule on these complex issues and usually say it's for a court to rule. Then it would be for the court to decide whether that charging was illegal because it was intended to drive...

Looks like he's nicked someone's crane jib! :rolleyes: .

Of course they are sold as static generators and normally only used that way. There are no anti-pollution laws for stationary engines. .

While I know e-bike law very thoroughly, I don't have any source for these roads pollution laws. I only know what the authorities have ruled, as in that London case. There are of course both UK and EU mandatory roads anti-pollution laws that apply everywhere, not just London. .

I've directed you to one law but you are missing the point of my post, I was speaking of emissions law and you would fall foul of that since you would be emitting the pollutants while in motion. And where in law is there anything that says the ic engine has to drive the car? Nowhere as far as...

That on-board generation is an intrinsic part of running the vehicle. Charging a spare battery is not, you could use it for any other purpose afterwards. But more importantly as I and Alan Quay have said, it becomes a motor vehicle. It's best to never judge on the basis of what's sensible...

It is and there is an example. The Chevrolet Volt, also known as the Vauxhall Ampera is General Motor's electric car. It's range is around 80 miles, but when the battery runs down there is an auxilliary 2 litre engine that cuts in to both charge the battery and supply the car's electric motor...

There's a law against manufacturing on the public highway and this can include the making of electricity. Long ago when the first readymix concrete trucks appeared they fell foul of this law and a special provision had to be made for them. But more aposite today are the anti-pollution laws...

Yes, quad bikes are now allowed by the amendments of the 6th April 2015 to the 1983 EAPC regulations. They naturally wouldn't mention something as obscure as generation while in motion since it's not part of a pedelec, but there are at least two laws that can make that illegal. .

Yes, Electric Bike Conversion Kits. .

Their website still lists the on-the-road price as £1800. Link As for support, I wouldn't rely on it. As I posted very recently, Mercedes abandoned all support on their previous e-bike the moment they discontinued it, and ever since act as though they'd rather forget they ever had it. I'm...

I can't see how a kit equipped bike can be certified as conforming to EN15194. Laboratory testing for EN15194 compliance is of the complete electric assist bike and clearly a private individual could not undertake that cost. I think the whole position of kit bikes is currently unclear, apart...

Sorry Ken, I also have to say this is simply untrue. There are many pedestrian shopping areas in the Netherlands for example where pedal bicycles, pedelecs and pedestrians mingle in large numbers at walking pace without problems. I've even seen that in videos from there posted in this forum...

I think the reciprocals of percentages might be beyond them, here I'd like British journalists to learn the English language first. .