Re: Cordless drill powered bike

You object to your own misunderstanding. Of course they can use an electric bike for recreation but it's very difficult and restricting to rely on a bicycle or motorcycle as their only transportation, unless they can buy all the services they need or depend on sympathetic friends, like someone I know.

BTDT, in college and living in Europe. It's only a toy.

You are a hobbyist. If you were involved with personal transporters as commercial products like I was it would be vital to understand and meet the needs of people who for various reasons don't own a car, and may have difficulty walking. The market for electric wheelchairs and mobility scooters is quite large.

Amazingly enough, there seems to be a reasonably large market, or at least people think there is, for e-bikes, too.

torsdag den 6. september 2018 kl. 20.05.52 UTC+2 skrev snipped-for-privacy@notreal.com:

I recently tried one of those rented electric bikes, was brilliant, charged by the minute from you take it out of the charging station till you put it back in a charging station, without breaking a sweat it gets across town faster than you could find a parking spot

I know they're big deals in Asia and I can imagine there's a lot going for them in Europe, too. I don't buy it in the US, though. There is nowhere I'd ride one here.

torsdag den 6. september 2018 kl. 21.10.46 UTC+2 skrev snipped-for-privacy@notreal.com:

sure it depends on shortish distances and roads with room for bikes, you don't want to zigzag between SUVs and trucks

here even the postal service use E-bikes in the city

What EPA rule limits the fuel tank size? My Gen 2 Volt has a range-extender engine as well, less all-electric range than the i3 about

The trick is to have a girlfriend who lives down the street from a free public charging station. So long as I date the same woman I get to drive about a thousand miles a month on not much more than $15-20 worth of fuel. It's okay we seem to get along pretty well.

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And out of millions of working models exactly ZERO are powered by a cordless drill motor.

It is one of those Arsenio Hall moments.

Doe boy gots too much bone matter between his ears.

Pea sized is supposed to be your pituitary, not your brain size.

Maybe you'll do better in your next life if God brings you back as a slug.

I was put off when the salesman told me about the artificial restriction and didn't listen too closely.

"European models have a 9 L (2.0 imp gal; 2.4 US gal) fuel tank while American models have the same tank though software-limited to a capacity of 1.9 gallons."

I decided long ago that 20 miles was my limit for romance, partly the result of a relationship with a lady lawyer who lived in Juneau. Later I changed that to "20 miles or the Bay Bridge, and no lawyers."

She lives exactly 26.2 miles away so I suppose my limit is 30. it's a

The way to get the best out of a car like the Volt in that arrangement is to burn gas on the highway there and back, where at speeds 70+ it's most efficient to use the ICE to ideally get 42, 43 mpg, and use the car as a "charge truck" to truck the charge from the free charger back home. Then run down the battery charge over the course of a few days on errands in around-town lower speed stop-and-go traffic.

If you time your visits right you arrive back there with just about 0 charge left, and repeat.

You really are one stupid piece of work, AlwaysWrong.

I looked at a number of plug-ins and plug-in hybrids when I was first in the market for one back in 2015, the i3 was one of them it just didn't offer enough for the price and paying that for the BMW name is hardly something important to me.

GM holds a number of patents on the series-hybrid extended-range EV topology; the 1.5L 4 cyl range extender engine in the Volt does the logical thing and uses the engine to spin a generator to drive the drive motors when operating in that mode, like a diesel locomotive. It can also use the engine to recharge the battery too, if you select that, but if the engine can drive the wheels directly there's not much use for that operating mode I almost never use it.

The final cap cost on my Gen 2 Volt after the state rebate and Federal tax incentive was well under 30k and that's for one that even has a few nice options.

or "electrically-directly", rather

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You would lose in a bar meeting.

You are one stupid f*ck piss poor example of an American community member.

You're always wrong, AlwaysWrong. It's a truly amazing record.

That sounds like a huge hassle. I just get in my car and go.

Also here in Berlin, Germany - with smaller front baggage racks. Here the postal service(s) use the basic non-electric bikes too.