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I have 15,000 miles on DrPulley sliders in my PCX including disassembly for inspection and a belt change and never had an issue. Many people install them upsidedown unfortunately. The reduced mass increases the pulling rpm for better acceleration and the new shape increases top speed, especially aft...

gn2 wrote:Wife changed car at the weekend, its been doing between 48 and 59 mpg so far.
Which is astonishing because its quite a big lump of a thing.

By the tank fill or as shown on the computer?

Last two tanks for my 2013 PCX150 were 105.3 mpgUS, 126.46 mpgUK, 44.77 km/L, 2.23 L/100km,
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and 104.9 mpgUS.
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38 mile back road commute. 80% at 55 mph, 88 kph, after going through town on both ends.

Haibike, Specialized, Giant, Treck, all have torque sensing mid drive bikes. Legal class 1 and class 3 bikes. This will be the future of personal transportation when liquid fuel starts to get really expensive in 20 years and world population tops 9 billion. . https://www.giant-bicycles.com/us/bikes-...

Install all 6 sliders to get the highest top speed back. Check the wear pattern to see if the variator is capable of compressing enough to move the belt all of the way to the outer edge.

Much more efficient and cheaper to just put the wind electricity into batteries. As long as we have (fossil fuel) access to the raw materials for batteries.

fool cell. Very inefficient, expensive, trouble prone, and short lived. Not to mention any way that you can make Hydrogen would be better to just use that energy for motion in the first place.

Autonomous ride hailing is a much more efficient use of resources than personal ownership of a car and will replace busses with fixed routes also. And eliminate a vast percentage of urban parking lots. A complete disruption of several lucrative private businesses. Another instance of robots taking o...

Practical fusion electricity falls firmly into the camp of can't happen with the rest of the Star Trek futures. Especially a breadbox sized reactor for personal transportaion vehicles. Even the mighty ITER is already obsolete and it hasn't even really been run yet. All that money wasted.

Who owns the batteries? How do you keep someone from ditching a damaged battery and taking a good one? Hot swapping batteries hs only ever been considered in the context of a set of manufacturer owned batteries that the users lease by contract.

Kymco trying to reinvent the EV with battery sharing.
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http://www.motorcycle.com/mini-features ... om20180323

These electric race bikes need a noise generator so the riders know when they are being over taken.

Electric vehicles are still slightly ahead of their time. It's about a choice not to burn fossil fuels. 35 years from now we will truely pass peak oil and the price will spike to 5x of the current price. Europe already has a fair chunk of carbon tax and gas is $8USD/ gallon. Norway has anounced a ba...

Not the Harley. The Zero technology is mature. But the price went way up. I bought a class 1 e-bike for my son to equalize our performance so that we can start riding some real single track trails. . . https://www.randombikeparts.com/collections/complete-bikes/products/2017-haibike-sduro-fullnine-5-...

The mid-drive ebikes are still really expensive due to the torque sensing name brand motor units but I am a hard core XC trail rider and these are the pinacle of offroad cycling. Cheap hub motor conversions with a throttle can be done for $400 and are used by the Millions in Asia where bike commutin...

The idea is energy and resource efficiency as everything gets tight moving forward. There is no way 11 Billion people can all have a car. But 4 times as many can have an i-road. Small 2 person vehicles that take up 1/4 the space and metal and batteries of a car and that means mean that more people w...

I considered a Bion-x for my mountain bike, but was put off by the price. http://ridebionx.com/products/ebike/ebike-systems/ I just looked at the price. $2,500 is completely out of the ball park now that all of the torque sensing mid-drive bikes are mature. There is a nice deal on a close out Izip ...

I also like the Toyota i-road leaning enclosed three wheeler.
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http://www.toyota-global.com/innovation ... ty/i-road/
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20 mph is a class 1 ebike which requires no license or registration and gets up to 800 mpge plus whatever you pedal. There are literally 100's to choose from today. Class 2 bikes are allowed to make 28 mph. From city bikes to cargo to off road. ebikes are the future for personal transportation in an...

But I do have to admit that the Chevy Volt batteries will have a few percent of capacity loss after 100,000 miles. It is very minimal due to under-rating the capacity and careful battery management which uses only the center of the actual available capacity, staying well away from the extremes of hi...