Interestingly I just returned from a trip to Vietnam where the Bike is king as far as transport goes. But very noticeable was the many electric scooters for sale and in use, particularly by school kids of a certain age ( 14, 15? ) job to tell - all the adults look 16  ( what we doing wrong?)
It's quite clear they are years ahead of the UK adopting battery powered scooters, granted the "safety" & "regs" are no doubt more relaxed than UK & EU. I would estimate 75% of the kids with scooters had battery power and to be honest looked a lot safer on the road than the kids with the oversized bicycles! Pollution was vastly reduced too with 50 or so battery scooters rushing out of the schools at lunch time, compared to that of the 2 dozen or so petrol ones stopped at traffic lights.
My guess is it won't be long before "The demise of the internal combustion engine" is followed by "The demise of the electric motor" by some new power plant, currently being developed in a garden shed somewhere.....
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Regards Tim
Learning my craft for the big stuff, it won't be long now and it's not that far anyway
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