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Perhspa there'll be a big increase in the usage of electric bikes / scooters - which will require draconian regulation to overcome the s***ty-battery syndrome with accompanying house fires.

a charity, with which I am involved, discovered that "Working from Home" for a member of staff meant staying 200 miles away at his partner's mother's house. Luckily he resigned.

I think you have entirely misses the salient point, that you cant charge a battery from a lower voltage than the battery itself

Voltage off a motor is proportional to RPM.

This is probably in the year after you gave up physics to study astrology

In extremis you can short a freewheeling electric motor and bring it to a halt. Gnatpwer is all oit takes to stop a very slow motor

So f****ng what? They still obey the fundamental s of electric motor physics. Actually they are more brushless motors with an electronic commutator.

You could call a simple 3 pole £1 chinese DC motor a 'multiphase synchronous motor' as well if you wanted to look like a total dick. Or you were trying to make out that it was motor magical than it actually was.

I've seen them not last out the day

You would do better to try and trail the brakes at light pressure for a longer time, if the vehicle allows it

I wouldn't want to be riding a bike, electric or otherwise, today.

I think humans have always owned their own means of transport. Apart from a very brief period of industrialisation, from shoes, to ponies and horses, carts and carriages, and motor cars and bicycles mankind has always owned his own means of transport because its massively inconvenient to rely on someone else's.

The regulations are there but they are not enforced. John

Best of luck keeping dry today.

My BiL wanted to line the cellar of his house, so needed to fix battens to the wall. At lunchtime he took hte barnd new B&D drill back to the shop "It doesn't work", so they gave him a new one, He took that one back in the late sfternoon.

Agreed, but in Jethro-uk's future, there'll be fewer cars anyway.

The Chinese are coming.

Our recent response here, is a 100% tariff on the Chinese imports. That's how much lower the price is, than the domestic product they hope to crush.

As for the notion of cars, remember there have been two city cars designed (one in the Netherlands if memory serves) for around 6000. One of those, has two kinds of packs in it. Some of the packs, you can take them in the house and recharge them. The other packs (of a similar size), might be fastened to the chassis.

Of course the car is not practical. It is speed limited so that it is not highway legal.

Think of it, as an eBike, where you don't get wet on a rainy day.

But, on a cold day in winter, you're going to freeze your ass off in one of those. Not enough kilowatts for resistive heating. and I don't think there are any heatpumps in the thing either. that's why it is similar to an eBike in many ways. Just scaled a bit.

But the point is, the device is perilously close to being practical. Unlike what the major automotive manufacturers want to sell.

Many of the city car devices, they're going to sell zero of those, because nobody wants to ride in a "clown car". But a couple have managed to be a little more attractive. Scrotes won't be tipping them over for fun, or fitting them between two tree trunks, so the driver can not leave.

Paul

Is there a ceramic brake kit for the car ? Aftermarket ?

The reason brakes are made they way they are, is they are considered a "tidy earner". A kind of rent seeking behavior.

Remember, that brakes weren't always like that. Tidy earners for somebody. But they have devolved to that point today. "Oh, I can only turn these down one time, before I have to replace them." "Well, sir, you should have been bringing the car in every five months, for our brake shampoo service." A tidy earner. Of course, you have to lube the sliders. Repeatedly. And with vigor.

The pisser is, when you get an idiot doing your brake service, and they manage to damage the transmission. Good help is hard to find.

Paul

It's not actually regulations calling for it. Much of that is down to EuroNCAP, who won't give a car a good star rating unless it has all of that stuff. Manufacturers don't want to sell a car with a low rating, so they feel compelled to add it. Even if much of the time it doesn't actually work very well.

Theo

That's what triggers regen. You need a firmer stop to use the friction brakes.

Theo

It depends on what you do.

Do you not remember the disaster that DVLC became?

"Oh, it's because they're working from home and they don't have access to the data they need."

In my book, that's *not* working from home, that's answering the odd email when you're in the mood to do so. If you don't have the tools to do the job, you can hardly be said to be doing it.

As it happened, I did some work from home for about twenty years, for one client. I was the IT manager/consultant/whatever, and their tiny network could be remotely accessed. I had better IT facilities than they did.

Most of the people who can work from home can be replaced by AI...

And yet I had a B& D drill that my father got with cigarette coupons in about 1958.

My boss borrowed it in 1980 and burned it out sanding floorboards.

In 2010 B&D merged to become Stanley Black & Decker, which also includes DeWalt, Irwin, Craftsman and other brands. Black+Decker is now their ultra-budget line - the tools are very cheap and the quality is not there.

I'm not sure when they changed colour scheme, but I'd run a mile from anything in their current orange.

Theo