Electric tricycles

[TopCat]

Lusting for one of these

Price looks encouraging. Wonder what the import fees and registration costs would be?

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[Silas Loom]

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[UnderOpenSky]

Lusting for one of these

Price looks encouraging. Wonder what the import fees and registration costs would be?

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Like an electric tuk tuk?

What license do you think you'd need? Motorbike or car? I'd also imagine it would be a fun call to the insurance company. You've got a what?

 

[TopCat]

Like an electric tuk tuk?

What license do you think you'd need? Motorbike or car? I'd also imagine it would be a fun call to the insurance company. You've got a what?

Definitely a motorcycle.

 

[TopCat]

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[JimW]

That's what I do the school run in, have posted a pic on here before, will search in a minute. I'm driving illegally at the moment as they brought in new regulations around the new year requiring a license plate and a sort of MOT and ours can't make it, so I stick to the backroads. Get about 50km range off a charge at 36 kph.
ETA pic here What's the most unusual way you could get to work?

 

[Silas Loom]

How stable are they? Presumably the back wheels don’t do the clever stuff like the Piaggio MP3s did?

I have a three-wheel electric mobility scooter which I chose for nimbleness around indoor obstacles, but it gets very close to toppling when faced with funny cambers and I wish now I’d gone for one with more wheels. We do seem to be approaching convergence between mobility kit and electric personal transport.

 

[JimW]

How stable are they? Presumably the back wheels don’t do the clever stuff like the Piaggio MP3s did?

Our one is pretty good, fixed back axle and front steers like a motorbike using handlebars. Have felt it shift a bit in strong winter winds but never felt close to tipping taking a bend. Ours has a bench seat at the back which can sit three kids if needs be, no seat belts

 

[JimW]

The newer ones which would meet the new regs are a bit fancier and better coachwork and some even have aircon/heating. Old fella who used to do a taxi service from the bus stop in an older petrol version used to have a coal stove in his

 

[JimW]

It's also really good over rough ground as like 2CV built with a rural market in mind. Went camping last night, just a kids sleep-out in the next village, but it trundled right up the rutted dirt track to the site with the tents on the roof rack.

 

[Silas Loom]

Probably the future of urban transport, anyway, at least in gridlocked Asian megacities.

 

[JimW]

Sorry to spam, but the other thing here is that there's a mechanic in every village of any size and you can get them fixed for next to nothing too, plus parts are readily available. Our local fellow has also come out to do a disconnected wire for me. Suppose that would be hard in the UK.

 

[JimW]

Probably the future of urban transport, anyway, at least in gridlocked Asian megacities.

Annoyingly these recent regulations show the triumph of the car, they're clearing these off the roads as they annoy the drivers. Short-sighted, though fully electric cars are getting pretty common. The slang term for the trikes is 老头乐 which means something like "gimmer's delight" as they're seen as things pensioners trundle around in doing the school runs.

 

[JimW]

Today's outing to fetch a table and picture MrsW had spotted on the freecycle equivalent. I'd taken youngest to his art class in the morning and not put it on charge (usually do overnight) so was bunny hopping a bit on final home stretch.

 

[Saul Goodman]

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Today's outing to fetch a table and picture MrsW had spotted on the freecycle equivalent. I'd taken youngest to his art class in the morning and not put it on charge (usually do overnight) so was bunny hopping a bit on final home stretch.

Do you, perchance, own a black and white cat?

 

[JimW]

Back on the road in this regulation compliant baby:




Even got a heater and MP3 player Son won't let me peel the teddy bear stickers off. Delivered just, went round the block to try. First school run tomorrow.

 

[JimW]

I'm hoping for a vastly improved range while the batteries are still new, even with winter coming on. It has a rear camera for reversing even but bit pointless; the fact the wing mirrors haven't been knocked off is already a major safety advance! If it can do 60km reliably it opens up all sorts of day trips to old temples in the hills and whatnot while my wife has the car at work. The school run is about 8km each way; the old one would do two days of that before needing a charge in the early days but the last year (of seven plus) it would always need an overnight charge.

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

Want!