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Zero Motorcycles Forum | 2013+ / UK Buyers - Shortfall/GAP Insurance
« on: November 22, 2017, 06:57:33 PM »
One for the UK Zero buyers and recent owners ...

Have you, or how have you, arranged for GAP/Shortfall insurance on your purchase?   These bikes are not cheap, finance costs for 3 or 4 years are not inconsiderable.  Yet if anything untoward happens we are exposed [potentially] to the remaining finance and no motorcycle to show for it!  Enter GAP or Shortfall insurance that covers the cost of replacement or pays off the finance, depending on what package you buy.

It seems, so far, that the on-line GAP/Shortfall insurers will not cover the Zero Motorcycle because it is not listed in Glass's guide!  That is my experience so far and time is running out to obtain the cover, usually within six months of purchase.

So do any of you have a solution to this?  Have you successfully got the cover and if so can you recommend any sources?

The insurance industry are really not doing much to help with the Government's EV intentions ....

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Zero Motorcycles Forum | 2013+ / Re: Graphe Batteries
« on: July 28, 2017, 03:08:19 PM »
I have used supposed Graphene LiPo batteries in model aircraft, specifically multi-rotor or "drone" to use modern day parlance.   They tend to be very high C rated, starting at 70C and going upward depending on various types. 

My experience, and that of others, is that these provide a very "punchy" output on demand without getting all stressy and puffing up.  But they also have one characteristic that I personally find quite irritating ... when they give up the GIVE UP .... fast!  Literally dropping off the edge of a cliff.  Power output goes from Hero to Zero (sic) in a matter of moments, little tapering off. 

Given how powerful the existing batteries are in the Zero range of motorcycles I question whether Graphene will do anything much for our benefit.  We don't need more C of power output.  We need greater energy density and the Graphene LiPo of today, at least, do not do anything to improve energy density for a given physical size.   

In short - more free-flowing electrons but no improvement in pack energy density.

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