Several times the trolls here have nagged that I might as well have a bicycle as my new RED Solo EV. Here’s an example of why that’s not a good idea. The picture below is one of my most-travelled routes. Note the high speed limit and lack of a paved shoulder. Often traffic is light but there are bursts of traffic when a light turns green or just by chance. It’s not pleasant to have big things whizzing by with ~85km/h speed differential.
See Google Street View
No, Solo makes more sense. It’s easy to pull over onto gravel if necessary and I can cruise at 70-80km/h quite comfortably without annoying the heck out of my fellow travellers and I can carry a lot more luggage for shopping/shipping.
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My observations and opinions about IT are based on 40 years of use in science and technology and lately, in education. I like IT that is fast, cost-effective and reliable. My first use of GNU/Linux in 2001 was so remarkably better than what I had been using, I feel it is important work to share GNU/Linux with the world. Now that I'm retired I still use GNU/Linux on every computer in my home except the smartphones which run Android/Linux.Lately, I've been giving lots of thought to the world I inherited and which I will leave to my descendants. I'm planting grass, trees, flowers and vegetables in my large lot and I've ordered a Solo EV. I plan to charge my Solo by means of a tracking solar array. Life is good if you have a purpose. I do.
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DrLoser wrote, “Got another one, Robert? I think not.”
Grece wrote, “It is amazing that you are willing to spend serious money to gloat over this fact, when you can accomplish the very same, by riding a bike or at the very least walking.”
Someone wrote, “And a bike wouldn’t? Your over-priced solution to the non-existent problem, that you shouldn’t be trying to solve in the first place has no generally applicable value – for short travel with no cargo hold you might as well use a bike (or just walk)”
dougman wrote, “The Solo EV, is a one trick pony bound to fail as did the Elio vehicle. No one will buy it, and it won’t be sold in any country. Your best solution is just get a bike.”
So, those are several examples of the unhelpful comments I’m ridding myself of by closing comments.
With most people I would let this slip. But not with you, Robert. You’ve found a single obscure instance.
Don’t generalise of a single obscure instance, which was probably a throwaway comment in the first place.
The general thesis amongst us “trolls,” and I am open to correction, is that you should buy:
1) A Nissan Leaf (probably second hand)
2) A Nissan Micra (OK, mostly me, but others are close to that opinion) or
3) A cheap junker to last you until EV cars come down in price.
The only common denominator here is that, and I don’t quite understand our motives here, but perhaps we are on a Mission From God, we don’t want you to spend CA$20,000 on a wretched little tricycle, which will lead you to die horribly in a mangled crash about three years down the road.
Show us a little love here, Robert. We are here to serve.
Oh, lumme, there’s one! How thrilling! (Although technically the suggestion was either a bike or a bus.) Got another one, Robert? I think not. And as you may recall, your quantification on the question was “several trolls.”
Somewhat off-topic, since mere storage of comments does not a database make. But, on the whole, I think reading comprehension is ever so lightly more wonderful.
It’s a neat trick, Robert. You are not too old to learn it.
DrLoser wrote, “you don’t need a car for those “few miles†Robert (a bike – literally – will do, or, in the case of the elderly, a bus).”
See someone’s comment
Aren’t databases wonderful?
Not even once, Robert.
Repeat after me: a Nissan Leaf is not a bicycle.
Now go scrabble up a link to one of us telling you to get a bicycle. It never happened, did it?
” I might as well have a bicycle as my new RED Solo EV. ”
What Solo Robert Pogson?
Unless you have actually taken delivery of the aforesaid vehicle, you do not have a new anything.
Robertpogson the fat pig you never get Jerry’s trycycle…Jerry is very fast
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/31/57/d4/3157d48dda9fcf32bb62eca55b8df0c9.jpg
Run Jerry…Robertpogson is steal your trycycle!!!
Yeah, I think Dwayne Johnson put it best.