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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: ctrlburn on April 20, 2014, 09:19:27 PM

Title: Hypothetical EV "Pony Express"
Post by: ctrlburn on April 20, 2014, 09:19:27 PM: Just suppose someone was making a long distance EV Motorcycle trip passing through your area nearing the end of their range - swapping for your charged bike (for the 2 dollars it costs to recharge both) and returning in a day or two swapping back for their charged bike. I'm not aware of anyone planning the trip, or considering liability logistics... just as a model how far can we get?

Any takers on linking up a "Hypothetical" EV Pony Express line?

Directional / Nearest Major City / Range / Model
East / Madison WI / 70-130 miles / Zero S 11.4
Title: Re: Theoretical EV "Pony Express"
Post by: NoiseBoy on April 21, 2014, 01:39:26 AM: Are you talking about actually giving a stranger your bike? Count me out.
Title: Re: Theoretical EV "Pony Express"
Post by: Richard230 on April 21, 2014, 03:14:50 AM: My motorcycle insurance doesn't cover any other riders than me, so that would be an issue for such a scheme.
Title: Re: Theoretical EV "Pony Express"
Post by: Burton on April 21, 2014, 08:03:16 AM: Allstate does cover more than one rider for a bike, I think several others do to but I don't think any cover 'guest' riders per say. And I wish they would >_<
Title: Re: Hypothetical EV "Pony Express"
Post by: ctrlburn on April 21, 2014, 10:31:27 AM: I've modified the precepts.

Changing "Theoretical" to "Hypothetical" and clarifying liability.

The intent - is to determine if we have the density to make an EV Pony Express.

Enjoy!
Title: Re: Hypothetical EV "Pony Express"
Post by: protomech on April 21, 2014, 06:09:58 PM: There used to be a map of Brammo owners and would-be owners. I recall it was pretty sparse outside of larger cities.

Maybe we should do something similar for Zero owners.
Title: Re: Hypothetical EV "Pony Express"
Post by: Richard230 on April 21, 2014, 08:35:00 PM: Quote from: protomech on April 21, 2014, 06:09:58 PM
There used to be a map of Brammo owners and would-be owners. I recall it was pretty sparse outside of larger cities.

Maybe we should do something similar for Zero owners.

That would be interesting. :)
Title: Re: Hypothetical EV "Pony Express"
Post by: frodus on April 22, 2014, 11:20:12 AM: reposting here, hoping the map might help:

I'm working on a a permanent domain, but in the meantime, I've put it on my personal website:
http://www.evfr.net/ (http://www.evfr.net/)
(the map WILL retain any information you enter, so when I do finally port somewhere, the data stays with the map)

Go to the link above, click "add" and enter your information. I kind of hope people put their email so other users can contact them. This is for all motorcycle users right now. I may make changes in the coming days, but I'll try my best to keep things intact.

Right now, I approve your locations, but I may change that. We'll see how bad spam is.

This is all on my personal domain and in no way related to my business.

Enjoy!
Title: Re: Hypothetical EV "Pony Express"
Post by: protomech on April 22, 2014, 05:54:37 PM: Looks great frodus.

One thing I was thinking about.. what if you displayed range (55 mph or highway commuting) as a circle centered on their location? (Maybe a toggle on/off) .. that would basically show the same thing ctrlburn was asking about.
Title: Re: Hypothetical EV "Pony Express"
Post by: frodus on April 22, 2014, 08:31:05 PM: I didn't program it.... It's just a user map at this point based on zeemaps. I can look into things like that but I don't think there's an option for that.
Title: Re: Hypothetical EV "Pony Express"
Post by: frodus on April 22, 2014, 11:00:16 PM: There's a search feature that I enabled that can give more info. What he CAN do, is on the search button, search for people within a certain range from him.

i.e. I can search for all users within a 75 mile radius of a location, or a point on the map. Location could be an address or zip code.