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Kandi’s new collapsible electric golf cart is the latest tiny EV coming for your neighborhood

Baua Electric

In fact, they’re getting much more use away from the golfing green as an alternative to cars in neighborhoods all over the US. Golf carts have wheeled their way out of the fairways, becoming the go-to chariot for zipping around local neighborhoods with a touch of whimsy and practicality. And the best part is probably the price.

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Electrifying Chicago’s Urban Residential Neighborhoods: 3 New Community Chargers

EV Match

It is exciting to see the variety and affordability of electric vehicles growing at the rate that they are, but we know it’s not enough. John’s Episcopal Church in Chicago’s Old Irving Park neighborhood. It would also create the EV Access for All program, which will support low-income electric car-sharing.

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Why this electric ‘car’ the size of two motorcycles should be on your list

Baua Electric

A new crop of tiny electric cars is changing the game and offering options we’ve never had before. Err, actually, I probably shouldn’t call them “cars”. I’m talking about Low Speed Vehicles (LSVs) , the official term for what many people call Neighborhood Electric Vehicles (NEVs). Sure, I love me a nice GEM.

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New LA electric car sharing program for disadvantaged communities; Bolloré BlueLA

Green Car Congress

The BlueLA EV car share program puts California’s cap and trade dollars to work to not only help meet the Paris Climate Agreement goals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and advance the EV goals in my Sustainable City pLAn, it brings new transportation options to neighborhoods that need them. —Mayor Garcetti.

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First EVs in new car-sharing program with Envoy to roll out in Sacramento; 142 e-Golfs by early 2019; Sac-to-Zero

Green Car Congress

The first of hundreds of electric car-sharing vehicles coming to Sacramento, California as part of Electrify America’s $44-million investment in the City will be unveiled tomorrow at the Whispering Pines Apartments in Meadowview. Residents of the complex will be able to rent the cars on a per-minute, per-hour or daily basis.

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California ARB awarding $1.6 million to LA for low-income EV carsharing pilot program

Green Car Congress

The grant will fulfill a key mandate of SB 1275, the Charge Ahead California Initiative, enacted last year to make clean transportation more widely available, particularly in low and moderate-income neighborhoods. Earlier post.).

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Tesla’s 62-stall Supercharger project in Santa Monica gains new momentum

Teslarati

A Santa Monica City Council agenda for the March 30th meeting shows there could be a reconsideration in the Emergency Ordinance for the two lots where Tesla planned to install 62 of its fastest electric car chargers. The ordinance temporarily reserved the area for affordable housing.

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