Talk:Twike

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Comments

From VfD:

Advertising. Rick K 23:44, Aug 18, 2004 (UTC)

Clean up and keep. The vehicle seems to be notable and to be worthy of reportage. Agreed that this article is a substub (I judge "stub" as "barely saying what needs to be said" and substub as "woefully inadequate compared to what should be said"), but there appears to be plenty to say about the thing. Geogre 01:09, 19 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- Keep. Now at least a good stub, or arguably even a more than adequate short article. As I understand it, a stub says what the article is about and why it's important at least, but is lacking important information that even a short article on the subject should be expected to include. A substub lacks either a clear description of the subject, or why it is important, or both. Substubs on any subject are deletable and in many cases speediable, but may be kept if there's a volunteer to expand them to stub standard at least. Stubs on encyclopedic subjects should be kept. Andrewa 14:14, 20 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Keep and Cleanup. Agree with Geogre. --Palapala 06:02, 2004 Aug 19 (UTC)
I'm genuinely confused as to what a hybrid human/electric vehicle is, but if indeed there is a lot to say about it, I believe that a more general article (not just restricted to this one make) is in order. Delete. Lacrimosus 05:35, 19 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Keep - interesting vehicle. I've expanded the article a bit. - TB 09:42, Aug 19, 2004 (UTC)
Keep. Good expansion. Andris 09:55, Aug 19, 2004 (UTC)

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Coefficient of drag?

Anyone know the coefficient of drag (C_d) on the Twike models? I would like to add it or C_dA (drag x area, which should be impressive since it is so short) to this page and the automotive table. --IanOsgood (talk) 17:58, 10 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I found CdA here. It was twice as good as the leading automobile, the GM EV1. --IanOsgood (talk) 18:25, 10 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

2 seater with seats placed behind each other

Following the design of the Volkswagen L1 (http://www.caranddriver.com/news/car/09q3/volkswagen_l1_concept-auto_shows/gallery, http://www.autoblog.com/2009/09/14/frankfurt-2009-volkswagen-l1-concept-the-most-fuel-efficient/), I had a few ideas; wouldn't it be best to construct the vehicle so that both seats are placed behind each other (to reduce width of the car -->to improve aerodynamic properties ?) I'm guessing that this model could be used for another open source car model. In addition, the second seat could be made collapsible, so that extra material can be transported if there is no second passenger.

Also, some features of the Volkswagen L1 can be described in the Hybrid vehicle article, and taken over for the model --> eg the water pumps; 2 are present, the first one for the ICE engine (this pump can be discarded when using a electric engine, which is more ecologic), and a second one to cool the electric components; both pumps can be switched on/off when needed (to reduce electricity consumption). This technique used for the second pump could be handy eg when creating a pedal powered/electric engine propelled vehicle (eg such as the Twike, ...).

Finally, it would be best to foresee a link in the see also section to the Twike from velomobile, or alter the text so as to present the simularities (velomibles can be converted to EV's and vice versa)

KVDP (talk) 15:18, 30 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Seats behind each other?

Seats cannot be placed behind each other this would mean there would be no front or back seat.They can be one in the front and one behind,if you do not understand try placing two of anything behind each other,it's impossible.94.196.186.156 (talk) 20:11, 19 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

My new favorite pointlessly pedantic comment. Atypicaloracle (talk) 21:25, 28 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I had to read this twice. Mine too. brodenf (talk) 02:18, 15 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Edit to create cite note in "Cost of Operation" section?

This section of text seems better suited to a footnote citation, rather than in-text. Anyone have any complaints about fixing this?

"Calculations made from data from the UK Twike site on August 6, 2007. Monetary conversions to US$ on August 28, 2007. -> This calculation is out of date because there are much better batteries available based on Lithium-Manganese."

brodenf (talk) 02:17, 15 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Aerorider

Perhaps mention the [www.aerorider.com/en/aerorider.html‎ aerorider] in the see also section KVDP (talk) 12:17, 22 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]