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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. I freaking love this thing.

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Crowdfunded Eli Zero micro-EV starts shipping to EU dealers; US plans for 2022

Green Car Reports

The crowdfunded Eli Zero electric car has started shipping to European Union dealerships, and the company plans to follow that up with a United States launch in 2022. Unveiled at the 2017 Consumer Electronics Show (CES), the Zero is classified as a neighborhood electric vehicle (NEV) in the U.S.,

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Episode Of 'Mister Rogers' Neighborhood' Features Electric Cars

Green Car Reports

Fred Rogers covered many topics on his eponymous children's television show, and it turns out one of them was electric cars. Mister Rogers" test drove an electric car during an episode that originally aired in 1981.

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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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Domino’s expands e-bike deliveries with nationwide program

Green Car Reports

Delivering pizzas in big, aging passenger cars is the norm in many neighborhoods in the nation, and it’s wasteful. In most of those locales, there’s a solid fair-weather alternative to firing up the engine (or taking the electric car) for another delivery just a mile or two away: e-bikes.

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Forget light poles, British firm to build chargers from cable boxes

Green Car Reports

The future of electric-car charging may be down in the trenches. The company, which owns Virgin Media, plans to start a pilot project using Virgin Media's cables and trenches that run to thousands of neighborhoods around Britain. At least British broadband provider Liberty Global hopes so.