Without wanting to come over as a nay-sayer, I'd like to pose a question to the electric vehicle advocates. I can fully see that an EV is a great alternative to a commuter car/bike, I can happily see myself plugging in every night (although in the back of my mind I might wonder about the environmental impact of digging all those noxious chemicals out of the ground and processing them), but the photoshop I did above was supposed to illustrate a point.

People on here aren't just bikers, they're bikers to the back of beyond, and the back of beyond isn't well served with power grids suitable for charging EVs. Will we all have to book hotels with power sockets? What happens when we run out of charge on the Road of Bones? How will an African community respond when we roll in and suck all their stored solar power up to charge our bikes overnight?

Why is the burning of fossil fuel so suited for powering our transportation needs and wants? Because the oil we burn is transportable, if we can get a vehicle there to need petrol we can get the petrol there to fill it up. So I remain to be convinced that the EV will be a solution for anyone who lives outside the developped world with its established power-grids at least for the foreseable future.

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