timmillea

I am hoping the forthcoming 3nM Apple M3 will make an 11-inch MBA with 16hrs+ battery life viable. 

This is about the ugliest, ungainly bike I have ever seen. I would be embarrassed to be associated with it. 

The current, fashionable AI is all big data and neural nets. In the big data is incorporated all the terrible misjudgements humans make. So you can simulate a mediocre decision from it and?

AI has been with us for over 60 years. The current trend can only do so much. It is better to go back to basics of "simulating external successful human behaviour" not recreating mediocrity and mistakes. 

I am with Phil Schiller. 

Agreed, the best aesthetic place for the battery is in the tubing but equally it should be user-replaceable. I don't know which chemistry has been used but if it is energy-dense plain old Li-on, then that is only around 400 'cycles' before it is seriously degraded - a couple of years. If it is the slightly less energy-dense LiFiPO4 then up to ten times that number, and probably the same life as the bike. 

7Ah is perfectly fine for commuting in relatively flat places which must have been the design aim. If you weigh over 100Kg and live in a hilly area where there simply are not any flat roads, both the motor power and battery capacity are wholly inadequate. 

Unfortunately, here in the UK, the 'flat-Earth' London Government have restricted e-bikes to 250W. That would not get me 10% of the way home up the hill from the nearest shop, less than a mile away. 

This is stereotypical EU over-reach. The European Economic Community was formed to maintain friendly relations (i.e peace) and facilitate trade between European countries after WW2. Now they are legislating on everything from bananas to buttons and wanting to create a unified European military force.  

The correct route would be to form an ISO standard for mobile phones, including battery replacement, charging etc.,  and let the manufacturer choose whether or not to comply. 

The EU is increasingly behaving like a dictator to the World - the opposite of what it was created for.