I once had a conversation with my boss who was well-travelled. He said the secret to Europe is to eat in the Catholic countries. If you must spend time within a Protestant country, look around for a Catholic enclave within it. Not only will the food be superior, but people will be falling over each other to make sure you are well fed.
I looked at him incredulously. How can you say that? It's such a sweeping generalization! And then I went to Europe…
That's interesting. I hadn't considered the efficiency aspect. L2 would be a pain to install where I live, I'm thinking. It's a bungalow and the breaker box is about as far from the driveway in the basement as is humanly possible. So lots of wiring and drilling to bring the power out to where it's needed seems likely.
From what others are saying, I probably do not need L2 for my modest driving needs, but the efficiency aspect could imply it would eventually pay itself back in energy savings. But if I have essentially what amounts to the worst case scenario in terms of upfront installation cost, that could take a long time…
I've never owned an EV but have been casually considering what it would entail. Like would I really need level 2 charging at home? I'm sort of thinking not at this point. The commute for me or my wife would be something in the 20 km round trip range. We don't live in a big city. Errands could increase that somewhat. But if let's say the charger could add back even 5 km/hr, which I think is a pretty conservative estimate. That should be plenty to handle our needs with overnight charging on 120V.
As for intercity, well, you'd likely be using some public fast charger right? So that's kind of a moot point as far as what you need at home.
I don't know if I'm missing something though in this analysis? Like I've heard winter driving affects range fairly considerably. And that's unfortunately also the time I'd be more tempted to drive over riding the e-bike everywhere. But even so, I doubt I'd ever exhaust the battery in my home town?
Here in Ontario, I think we have 16 reactors spread across 3 power plants? And more are purportedly on the way.
The CANDU reactors use heavy water and should, in theory, be safer than light water designs since they can function with unenriched uranium. OTOH the nearest reactor to where I live is in upstate New York and is rather Fukushima-like from what I've heard. Also, I don't know what the new reactors will be, though the provincial gov seems to be pushing SMRs for whatever reason.
What jumps out almost immediately is that it does not appear to be a loop. Were it a loop, you could have more than one car going around. Should it not at the bare minimum satisfy its own naming criteria?
Wait, they're not all made in China? Last time we were ordering some for a development board at work, we had to source them from China, though that was admittedly a few years back.
A man rides an electric scooter along Polk Street on July 29, 2024 in San Francisco, California. According to a University of California San Francisco (UCSF) study, injuries involving e-bikes surged more than 3,000% across the country between 2017 and 2022, and e-scooter injuries jumped more than 560% during the same time.
So this is essentially the entire piece. Not so much as a link to the original study. How much did e-bike/scooter usage increase over that period? How many of these injuries were caused by vehicles? How did urban infrastructure—or lack thereof—contribute to any of this?
This reminds me of articles I've read on The Telegraph. Any UK people here? What is the deal with that rag? Why do they hate e-bikes so much? I read Apple News for certain paywalled sites, and they're the first paper I've actually had to block. (I think the final straw was their recent diatribe over the blight of solar panels.) Do they just have a particularly curmudgeonly op-editor or is it the whole culture with them?
I wonder how much range you would get running your tricked out ebike at 70 mph? I bet you would burn through battery pretty fast. I say this after researching e-motorcycles awhile back. I was disappointed that most of the affordable offerings topped out at around 100 km range or less, where my use case would have been inter-city. I have an e-bike for the city I'm perfectly happy with. But then I found someone on a forum mentioning that you could more than double the e-motorcycle range if you restrict yourself to city speeds to cut the wind drag.
I ride my ebike on mixed use paths on my way to work. My personal policy is to treat it as a class 1 in that case, and not exceed 24 kph. When passing pedestrians, this drops to 20 or lower, depending on the circumstances (e.g. can I get their attention with the bell, are small children/unleashed dogs involved, etc.).
Yesterday, I saw someone shoot past me on an ordinary bike. I briefly sped up to match his speed and checked my speedometer. He was doing 36 kph. In fairness, regular bikes don't tend to come with speedometers, so he may have had no idea how fast he was moving.
I have also seen ebikes going well over 32 kph though. Mine is software limited to top out at that for electric assist, but the cap can easily be lifted with the phone app. I have elected not to do so. I'm a commuter. I just want to get to work. Not trying to win any races.
I think that's part of the plan though right? If they spot a compliance officer walking up, they can drive the patio around the block a bit until he's gone.
I once had a conversation with my boss who was well-travelled. He said the secret to Europe is to eat in the Catholic countries. If you must spend time within a Protestant country, look around for a Catholic enclave within it. Not only will the food be superior, but people will be falling over each other to make sure you are well fed.
I looked at him incredulously. How can you say that? It's such a sweeping generalization! And then I went to Europe…