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My main problem with electric vehicles at the moment is charging them on the street.
They'll mainly be uses in London I reckon, so there are already a few options. In a flat it could be tricky though.
Over the next 2yrs we'll see the start of wide spread distribution of ultrafast charging points. Given the size of the batteries in a scooter it should be <5mins to charge. In which case it won't be too dissimilar to filling with petrol.
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We don't even have fibre broadband in our part of Fulham. Probably be 20 years before we get a charging point. :)
I get what you're saying though. It's more that I don't use the scooter that much so the battery would likely be flat every time I wanted to use it, unless it was trickle charging indoors. Will have to see how things develop but i'm not paying £12 per day to ride into central london when the ulez comes in.
Airhead
Looks good. I can see it being an interesting time for electric conversions until a few poorly wired ones explode and then we'll all be back to nanny state bs (see vaping). My main problem with electric vehicles at the moment is charging them on the street. Removable batteries would work for me but that doesn't seem to be a priority for the designers yet.
Sill waiting on the electric Brompton. No licence, tax, storage in a vehicle boot or indoors. What are the MOT and taxation implications of a conversion going to be on a regular moped? Interesting times though.