Battery Vehicle Society

I'm looking forward to the pictures! Sorry I couldn't make it this year. With any luck I'll have my own creation to bring next year...

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Quite simple really, I sold the company. The company that bought it was a competitor coming into the UK and they wanted to get our market share.

This one looks good - an electric sportscar built in Britain, with a 250 mile range and a ten minute recharge time:

http://www.lightningcarcompany.com/

Deliveries starting next year. Join the queue!

Milestones is a fantastic location for a show. If you've never been, you're in for a treat. It is a museum with a difference - its laid out as two small towns, one from the 1890s and one from the 1940s. You get to wander in and out of factories, houses, shops and town squares; have a beer and a game...

I'm still waiting for my copy to come through the letter box...

Well, this particular 'vending machine' is a parcel vending machine. I work for a company that delivers parcels. But rather than delivering them to homes during the day when nobody is at home, we deliver them to our network of parcel vending machines, so that people can pick up their parcels when it...

Instead of a central show, what about several smaller shows? The problem with having a central show is that it is mutually inconvenient for everyone and only die-hard enthusiasts attend. A smaller roadshow has the benefit of being reachable by far more people, and is far more practical for electric ...

floydster wrote:Does anyone have any idea how many EVs are registered in the UK?

I don't know, but it has been estimated that over 30,000 electric bikes have been sold in the UK since 2000.

Over the past few years, tens of thousands of people have bought electric vehicles in the UK. The vast majority of these are electric bikes: I believe that since 2000, around 30,000 electric bikes have been purchased. That is a heck of a lot of electric vehicles. Whenever an electric car appears on ...

That really is fantastic news. As a comparison, the G-Wiz owners club web site tends to get around 60-70 unique hits a day.

The most hits we had was recently during the recent publicity storm about G-Wiz safety, when one day we had 2,766 unique visitors to the site!