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Honda’s new AI-powered ‘golf cart’ look-alike will drive you around without a license

Electrek

The new “Honda CI Micro-Mobility” self-driving EVs are set to hit the streets, combining Artificial (AI) and Cooperative (CI) technologies. Although it may resemble the look of a golf cart, Honda’s “Micro Mobility” concept is capable of much more, with features designed to shuttle around those who either don’t want to or can’t drive.

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Wheel-E Podcast: Electric bike rebates, Polestar e-bike, electric jet skis & more

Electrek

This time that includes new e-bike subsidies, an upcoming Polestar electric bike, a teeny-tiny electric motorbike from Honda, street-legal luxury golf carts, high-speed electric jet skis and lots more. The post Wheel-E Podcast: Electric bike rebates, Polestar e-bike, electric jet skis & more appeared first on Electrek.

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An Easy EV Conversion Kit For People

Open Source Civic EV Kit

While people can purchase neighborhood electric vehicles today for about $10K, they only have a top speed of 35 miles an hour or so, essentially glorified golf-carts. With rising gasoline prices, I believe the demand for freeway capable electric vehicles is going to increase over the next few years.

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Embracing a century of EV history

Electric Auto Association

It’s basically just a souped-up golf cart, but Ford wouldn’t allow them to import it into the US. I’d been driving my Honda Insight to Chicago every couple of months for chapter meetings,” Steiner said. Steiner designed the prototype himself, basing it on the 1908 model, and then engaged the Chinese manufacturer.

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Embracing a century of EV history

Electric Auto Association

It’s basically just a souped-up golf cart, but Ford wouldn’t allow them to import it into the US. I’d been driving my Honda Insight to Chicago every couple of months for chapter meetings,” Steiner said. Steiner designed the prototype himself, basing it on the 1908 model, and then engaged the Chinese manufacturer.

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EV Briefs, and Black Rock City & EVs

Plugs and Cars

Out in the desert as part of Burning Man , our encampment, Snow Koan Solar, is setting up a solar photovoltaic EV Charging Station (at 7:30 and Desert) for electric scooters, golf carts, sofas and barstools. They will join the one Honda Fuel Cell car currently in private hands in Southern California.

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China puts its electric vehicles on center stage - China automotive news

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

and Korean golf cart maker CT&T Co. Another notable battery car, though its producer decided to skip the Shanghai show, is a super-low-cost, two-seat mini electric car that Chinese parts producer Wonder Auto Technology Inc. are expected to begin producing jointly this summer. Bridgestone to lift China tire.

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