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Old 05-08-17, 08:18 AM   #71
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No fun fitting an aftermarket can to a leccy bike - people will sell 'sound synthesizer' modules instead that you can plug in to change the sound LOL. some people will no doubt fit 100watt speakers to make their bike louder (whatever will happen to the 'a loud bike is a safe bike' motto then).

Wish they would change the wording on that 'zero emissions' (which is false advertising) label to 'zero emissions at the tailpipe but can't comment on what's happening further up the supply chain' - a bit wordy but true.
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Old 05-08-17, 08:47 AM   #72
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No fun fitting an aftermarket can to a leccy bike - people will sell 'sound synthesizer' modules instead that you can plug in to change the sound LOL. some people will no doubt fit 100watt speakers to make their bike louder (whatever will happen to the 'a loud bike is a safe bike' motto then).

Wish they would change the wording on that 'zero emissions' (which is false advertising) label to 'zero emissions at the tailpipe but can't comment on what's happening further up the supply chain' - a bit wordy but true.
There will be another u-turn. Diesels are great so everyone invests - oh no actually we need to ban them now after years of DPF's,additives and £ that just didn't work

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Old 05-08-17, 09:13 AM   #73
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Its probably less of a concern as there's not meany 2 wheelers now!!!
Likely less in 20+ years time
But we have 'lecy bikes now,The car/truck tec will filter across to bikes too
Possibly MORE bikes cos folks are already sick and tired of the excessively sanitised nanny state we now inhabit
Wouldn't fancy lugging a truck battery around though!
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Old 05-08-17, 10:59 AM   #74
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Possibly MORE bikes cos folks are already sick and tired of the excessively sanitised nanny state we now inhabit
You can bet all electric cars will be fitted with technology to enable 'big brother' to check where the vehicle is and how fast it is going - also to enable automatic payment of 'road pricing' charges (which will be introduced for sure because fuel duty is pretty hard to collect if people charging from home supply, and government will need to replace the revenue). In article below it suggests that because of electric vehicles VAT on energy may rise from present 5% to 20%, this means that because some people have electric vehicles we will all pay 15% more for our power, that is on top of the £150 pa increase government is proposing to bring in to fund unreliable 'renewables' LOL

https://www.theguardian.com/politics...-vat-fuel-duty

Tracking and road pricing will probably come in for all vehicles before 2040 anyway because governments do not like losing money streams and have proven themselves able to waste every penny they get, and to divert revenue collected from one source to pay for stuff not remotely connected to it (like VED and fuel tax not being used to repair our roads).
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That's because your council tax pays for your road repairs

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No fun fitting an aftermarket can to a leccy bike - people will sell 'sound synthesizer' modules instead that you can plug in to change the sound LOL.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n17B_uFF4cA

Honda have announced they will bring an electric scooter to market next year and there are strong hints they will be moving into hybrid/electric bikes.
http://www.visordown.com/motorcycle-...-cub-next-year

If Honda do something with a similar spec to the Zero S and fully supported by Honda's extensive dealer network there will be many more electric bikes on the road.
I reckon if Honda do electric bikes, other manufacturers will have to follow suit.
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That's because your council tax pays for your road repairs
On average about 5% of council tax revenue is spent on roads, and 25% of fuel tax / VED income from central government is distributed to local councils etc. for road infrastructure - rest of money motorists pay directly is mixed with other revenues into central pot.

We all know what a state our roads are in, so whatever they are spending is obviously not enough. When government announces a £200 million pothole fund it is a drop in the ocean of the £30billion+ it collects directly from road users.
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You can bet all electric cars will be fitted with technology to enable 'big brother' to check where the vehicle is and how fast it is going - also to enable automatic payment of 'road pricing' charges (which will be introduced for sure because fuel duty is pretty hard to collect if people charging from home supply, and government will need to replace the revenue). In article below it suggests that because of electric vehicles VAT on energy may rise from present 5% to 20%, this means that because some people have electric vehicles we will all pay 15% more for our power, that is on top of the £150 pa increase government is proposing to bring in to fund unreliable 'renewables' LOL

https://www.theguardian.com/politics...-vat-fuel-duty.
No point in monitoring the car's as you probably have a chip in you .
5mph over the limmit automatic deductions from your credits like the 5th element cab driver...
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Old 13-11-17, 11:53 AM   #79
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Update on this, I took a Renault Zoe and a BMW i3 out over weekend.

Both were good cars, felt a bit heavy considering their small size. As expected the BMW felt a bit more solid and better put together.

Both drove really well, neither are what you'd call fast, but they are definitely faster to 50 than a petrol or diesel equivalent, after that they run out of ideas a little bit.

Hoping to get the i3 on an extended test drive next week.
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Go Leaf or go home lol
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