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Sir Clive Sinclair thought so too and tried to make it happen about 35 years ago, but it didn't quite catch on, to say the least: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
by Razengan 7y ago
Sir Clive Sinclair thought so too and tried to make it happen about 35 years ago, but it didn't quite catch on, to say the least:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_C5 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_C5
- sprafa 7y agoThat looks great!
- wazoox 7y agoWith 2 lead-acid batteries and a fragile plastic gear as an essential part of the transmission, it's hardly a surprise really. However it's not that bad actually, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JikUIdHXcc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JikUIdHXcc
- hawski 7y agoI was curious, so I went to YouTube and watched a bit of this clip: https://youtu.be/xS6q27VOTOk?t=38 https://youtu.be/xS6q27VOTOk?t=38 Interesting machine, but it's really a bicycle with a single-speed electric motor. With lots of issues, that currently would be easy to fix with off-the-shelf parts from electric bicycles. But maybe more important notion is, that it's not fully covered. It's not all-weather vehicle, not even half-weather it seems.
- ptaipale 7y agoI seem to recall a Not-nine-o'clock-news episode where truckers were smashing C5's. This was after an episode where they smashed hedgehogs (naturally angering many). The hedgehog thing is easily found on Youtube, but did I just imagine the C5 episode? In any case, that was when I had pretty much given up hope with Sinclair QL (a home/business computer with 68008 CPU and 128K RAM).