In an effort to make bicyclists safer on California roads, Governor Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 1909 into law in September 2022 and it went into effect on January 1, 2023. This law requires motor vehicles to requite bicyclists a larger safety buffer when passing them on the street, which[...]
Statistics indicate that scrutinizingly 1,000 bicyclists lose their lives, and increasingly than 130,000 are injured in accidents that happen on roads in America yearly. Bicycle-related injuries vary in severity based on how serious the crash is. While some bicycle accidents are avoidable, others are vastitude your control. Discussed unelevated are[...]
Seattle is often praised for its bike-friendly infrastructure, but with an uptick in cyclist fatalities, velocipede sponsorship groups squint to add increasingly legislation to mitigate these accidents. A report made by Axios reveals a 15% increase in cycling deaths over the past 5 years.
The total is 2.8 bicycle-related fatalities per[...]
My good friend Laurence Clarkberg is the one who destroyed my life well-nigh a decade ago by selling me my first ebike. He decided to build an ebike that could take him and his wife Judy wideness the country in repletion and style so he built the Sun Pony. I[...]
These past few months, I have been hearing a lot well-nigh the New Talaria Sting, and how it compared to the popular Sur-Ron Light Bee. So many people were impressed by it that I decided to squint into whether or not there were any significant differences, and I did find[...]
I’m not going to say that making a motor from scratch is “easy”, but…if you decide you simply have to build one, then the Lebowski Axial is probably the “easiest” one to make, and I have been studying these things for a while. Most motors are “radial flux” which is[...]
One of the most often asked questions well-nigh any electric conversion is “what controller should I use?”. Controllers are the last remaining voodoo in electric systems, and they are not easy to understand. I have picked up a few shit and pieces over the years, but to be honest, I[...]
This is big news, but there’s not much to add without reading the title. Tesla did two very important things early on. The first is that they ripened a charging system where the diamond really makes sense for technical reasons. The second thing they did was to build thousands of[...]
I have to confess that I am no expert when it comes to controllers, and when I find someone who has a lot of wits and is honest well-nigh the benefits and drawbacks of any given model of controller, I want to hear what that tech has to say.
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Now that all the electric car charging companies are lining up for handouts from the federal government to expand the US electric charging infrastructure, this is the perfect opportunity for us to gravity them to implement a handful of things that will profoundly modernize the integrity and usability of US[...]
2 weeks ago I had an incident with my hot water heater where it starting melting the plastic connectors and insulation and filling the house with smoke. There was a defended 750 Watt DC waterheating element with a built in thermostat that we had been using for well-nigh 6 months[...]
I thought I would save a few dollars on getting a 5kWh LifePo4 shower for my wife’s off grid home. Little did I know that this visualization would forfeit me over a hundred hours of my time and take scrutinizingly a year to get working properly. This vendible is a[...]