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If you want the potential of 36 volts, the Kudos Secret offers that and very low weight for an e-folder. If long battery life is more important than the extra bit of performance, their 24 volt Versatile model uses an LiFePO4 (Lithium Iron Phosphate) battery which has better long life...

Totally agree on this, the potential energy of fusion does seem to blind some to the realities. Your position on ammonia though is a bit extreme to say the least, aligning it with technologies that will never work like perpetual motion! It has worked and in a practical application, so could do...

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The trikes are very much a tourist thing, used by those not knowing the closeness of their destination, they don't stray far. The short lived attempts at using e-power are more from desperation to cope with the workload than covering any larger area. As usual, the range and duration can't...

I don't think the last part is possible Emo Rider. David of A to B magazine is a very powerful rider, but he found the e-power version of the Cycles Maximus to demand very high rider inputs even in the essentially flat Castle Cary area on the Somerset Flats. A bit of a slope could be almost...

The only practical application of e-power to the Cycles Maximus using a Lynch motor and twin SLA batteries ups the weight to 135 kilos. Add rider and two passengers and the weight becomes circa 370 kilos. Sometimes they even carry three passengers so that can go even higher. Should that be...

I have been watching John, but as said, knowing it's contrived nature spoils it for me. Among other things I simply hate DRS, safety cars, pit stops for the sake of having them when cars could easily be designed to run for a 200 mile race. .

Hardly true, the regulations in the 1950s, '60s and 70s weren't remotely as tight as they are today and the racing was very real then. The main rule then was on engine capacity. That's why we had the big engine and car variations from BRM, Tyrell and others that I've already mentioned, proving...

Very true. It will be interesting to see how the DfT deals with this issue when they revise our law on e-bikes to harmonise with the EU. In the EU there is no weight limit on e-trikes so these could be legal, so long as their motors are rated at 250 watts and conformed to EN15194. The...

That illustrates what is wrong, the existence of unnecessary rules. If there was no such rule others could adopt a similar solution. Racing is about the competition of drivers and cars, and the development of the latter should not be deliberately impeded. Long ago when F1 had few rules other...

The reasons why the Met have taken action against these illegal pedicabs now and a number of times previously over the last few years is twofold: First, the licenced taxi drivers resent the pedicabs so raise the illegality complaints in the first place. Second, the law restricts e-trikes to 60...

That's good to know, I just hope the intervention reduces rather than increases, as it's done in F1 to such a silly degree. Obviously it's new territory so will take some while to settle into a worthwhile sport. So far I'm not confident that this or the racing e-motorcycles will succeed while...

Mmmm. I'll give it a try, but I think I'm likely to end up sticking to Moto GP, real racing with no idiocy like DRS or social media selected boost akin to KERS. Whether it helped a driver or not is surely beside the point, such an outsider intervention has no place in racing of any kind. What...