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This thread may be the one to ask if anyone has compiled a user degradation log of pouch cells in general, and Ferasis pouch cells as used in Zero bikes in particular, like the Tesla/Panasonic 18650B cell graph which curves upwards along the time axis and not downwards like Nissan Leaf pouch cells?

Any news on this repair/rebuild yet?

I feel a sort of animated monty python sketch would be ideal.
featuring OLEV the Office of Low Expectations and Vision...

The trouble here is our self serving political representatives can't hear motorcycles whilst driving in "their" neighbourhoods in insulated private "his and hers" 4 wheel drive german panzer wagons in the shires.
So the only thing they are interested in is not having more motorcycles of any sort on the road at all, noisy or quiet, to stop them feeling the bump as they drive over us having failed to look out and having mistaken us for a pile of horse shit on their country lanes!
Motorcycles represent freedom in Britain which is dangerous when out political leaders are all oppressors out to oppress us regardless of their colour of political rosette.
I drive a white police Pan European and wear a white helmet and high viz jacket to deliberately look like a cop. It is the fastes thing from A to B for the concious, breathing and sighted who are very curteous to me.

The local village gentry male of female can't work out, when I am coming the other way on a single track road, that their shiny new 4x4 is able to put 2 wheels on the grass without causing it any damage.
I often politely ask them to get their heads out of their anuses before getting behind the wheel of a 3 tonne tank but strangely they don't seem to understand my politeness A cull is long overdue...

So you expect a nice new battery in your new bike but wait.. the first time you swap it you get an old one of indeterminate value

Or start with a depleted one anybody?

Now you gotta go back and hope to get the new one back

Not for general release for road use, Renault learn't the hard way on that with Better Place http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/mar/05/better-place-wrong-electric-car-startup

Me too, Third time I have written to my local Tory  MP about green energy and have yet to receive a reply!

(Note to our American friends who weren't sure. Tory = Republican ie regressive)

I also added this bit, hope you like it ;

If your party want nuclear and hydrogen to the be the future in the UK then may I kindly point out that there is a 4 billion year supply of both in the centre of our solar system as can be verified by all the UKs progressive non flat earthers each and every day just by looking up!

All it takes for all us Britts to benefit right now from this abundantly free and clean natural resource is some real political leadership promoting turbines (water and wind, on shore as well!) and solar panels.

I note however your party seems intent on reducing all feed in tarifs , which were to assist with green energy adoption, in favour of supporting the legacy oil industry.

So I conclude that, meanwhile, the oil and gas industry are clearly currently being very successful in lobbying against such weak leadership.

That is self evident by the fact that they have succeeded by getting your party to mandate their ability to frack at liberty for hydro carbons under my house yet all on shore wind turbine installers, including the very well known green energy provider Ecotricity whose mantra is "converting bills to mills" who provides all the power for the UKs electric highway for electric vehicles, have now been prevented from installing any more wind turbines on land in the UK. That whilst we Britts have the best wind resource in Europe!

We need the right policies for the future now before we are all fracked.

Yours...



Guys you may want to add these two addressees to your email or forward your email on to them like I did ;

olev.enquiries@olev.gsi.gov.uk,
politics@theguardian.com

Add an R to an S or DS and pay an extra $2000 for the R badge and another 240 amps? What else?
That is the additional cost you pay to go from a 420 to 660 amp controller so for 240 amps more!
Thicker wire, bigger box and a few more mosfets and possibly an economy of scale.
Does anyone know why that +$2K should be?
As Sevcon are made in England would anyone like me to try get a price for a job lot?

If Honda EV cars are anything to go by they, like Toyota, believe in Fool Sells and Hydrogen being the future which IMO it always will be, a fake disruptive technology to undermine EV sales whilst being promoted by liquid fuel sellers with big political lobbying clout to keep the oil flowing and save the ICE
10,000 psi Hydrogen bomb motorcycle anyone?