Electric cars

[Stig-OT-Dump]

Watching top gear the other night, it was going on about G-Whizzes being popular in the congestion zone. Are these silent assassins? or driven by beardies who are taking a day off cycling and therefore totally bike friendly? Or have the designers cunningly made them make a noise so that they can't creep up on you unheard (or are they so slow they couldn't even draft you)?

So many questions, so few paragraphs, but I'm sure you get my drift.

Cheers

Stig

 

[Tynan]

something in the Metro

a grand total of 1100 of them in the whole countries and sales now less than one a week, one of the two firms selling them gone bust

doubt this is a problem

 

[BentMikey]

Use your eyes, not your ears, otherwise it's just like being a pedestrian running out in front of bikes without looking.

 

[ianrauk]

Only ever seen one Whizz in London (well Greenwich)

 

[sheva]

had a whizz shop in leeds, offering them for sale or hire. It went bust.

 

[cheadle hulme]

Smart have just started trialling an electric ForTwo for corporate customers in the UK. Mini have an electric version trialling in the US.

I'd get one, but the extension cable needed to recharge it would have to go over the pavement from my house.

 

[hackbike 666]

Use your eyes, not your ears, otherwise it's just like being a pedestrian running out in front of bikes without looking.

Oooh get you.

 

[BentMikey]

I must admit they are a bit disconcerting!

 

[Iainj837]

I don't think I have seen one any pictures of one

 

[Stig-OT-Dump]

I saw a hydrogen powered motorbike being demonstrated and ity was a total stealth vehicle. It'd be pretty easy to miss with a casual over-the-shoulder glance before doing a manouvre.
Maybe they should be fitted with a little bell that they could tinkle before overtaking you...

..or they could do a polite cough and say a gentle "excuse me"

 

[benborp]

There's a complete tool who drives one near me. He drives it the way some people ride bikes. If there is a stream of moving traffic he'll work his way through it by undertaking, overtaking, cutting corners, jumping lights. I seem to remember he actually nudged me out of his way once. Having a small, narrow, virtually silent car behind you, driven by a complete wantwit is hairy. I was once taken by surprise by another one that rolled into the ASL beside me (despite being in primary) as the lights changed. Didn't hear it and didn't see it until it was closing the door on me on the other side of the junction.

Random thought. How heavy are they? And does the weight distribution (beacause of the batteries) make them like weebles? i.e. Would it be easy to tip one on its side?

 

[Mr Pig]

Are these silent assassins?

You think they would hurt you? I think that if you stuck your leg out in front of one it would just flip over onto its roof.

 

[BentMikey]

You've never tried to lift a car battery then.

 

[Mr Pig]

You've never tried to lift a car battery then.

Humour. You wouldn't understand.

 

[BentMikey]

Humour. You wouldn't understand.

Fail. Humour. You wouldn't understand. LOLOL!