Cars That Think

APRIL 18, 2024

When the space agency sent Curiosity , a golf cart–size rover, to explore the Gale crater and Mount Sharp on Mars in 2011, DSS-43 tracked Curiosity as it made its nail-biting seven-minute descent into Mars’s atmosphere.

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Teslarati

APRIL 19, 2021

Information regarding this small but impressive electric car that is a part of an SAIC, General Motors, and Wuling joint venture is vague and usually hard to come by. There are not many parts to the car, and it is a relatively simple machine. An assembly line worker at the Wuling plant. Credit: YouTube | Gweilo 60).

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Teslarati

APRIL 2, 2021

Musk once said that driving an electric car didn’t have to be a boring, slow, or golf cart-like experience. This was all a part of Musk’s Master Plan. The Model S and Model X were both head-turners: the S, with its sporty look, was not the stereotypical electric car.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 12, 2011

The NYPD already uses electric scooters and electric powered golf carts on boardwalks, in parks and some transit hubs. As part of its selection as the supplier of New York City’s Taxi of Tomorrow, Nissan is working with the City and taxi owners on a pilot program to study the use of zero-emission electric vehicles as taxis.

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Electric Auto Association

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

Of course, this was while he was manufacturing and distributing parts for conversions.”. The only EV he was familiar with was a golf cart, so he tried playing around with that, and eventually converted a Beck into electric.” Jack Rikard on EVTV. I can attest to the fact that his system worked.”

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

We have the opportunity to either challenge a small part of the market as an OEM, or to leverage the numerous established OEMs with their respective brands and infrastructure. With access to global platforms through multiple partners, we believe we can be much more successful as a strategic technology provider than an automaker.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2010

Ioxus sees this series as serving smaller, golf-cart type vehicles and utility vehicles, as well as for engine starting, Hall said. The 3,000F unit has a volume 17% less than that of competitive products, with ESR again at part with higher capacitance products. Leakage current is 5% lower than competitive products.

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Porsche 914 EV Conversion

FEBRUARY 18, 2007

The circuit above costs less than $10 per battery in parts and I hope to make this available to everyone to help people make their batteries last longer. I'll have to modify the circuit with a voltage doubler in the final stage to work with 8-volt golf-cart batteries for the 914 EV kit.

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Porsche 914 EV Conversion

FEBRUARY 24, 2007

So, given that it's cold and rainy for a few months and I have the suspension, I decided to start the conversion, despite not having all the parts from ElectroAuto yet. Maybe I'll take a day off to go to A & P as well as Farwest Golf Carts to pick up some old 8V golf cart batteries for desulfation testing.

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Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 5, 2021

It’s basically just a souped-up golf cart, but Ford wouldn’t allow them to import it into the US. We had 100-odd signatures and sent it into the city as part of the public information request for comments,” Schalk said. “ It’s been great to be a part of that.”. Hoosier EVA outreach event.

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Porsche 914 EV Conversion

JUNE 5, 2007

After much time on the phone with UPS Freight, the 8-volt golf cart batteries finally showed up today! Although the Bill of Lading clearly stated that this was a residence requiring a liftgate, UPS seemed to overlook that part of the order. Here's the semi that showed up at my doorstep to block off the street.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 2, 2024

Through an aggregator model in the pilot phase, the Solar2EV project hopes to accrue demand for 1 lakh electric two-wheelers, 70,000 electric three-wheelers and 30,000 passenger EVs by end-2025. Our ministry is looking to unlock the benefits of electric mobility and a solar economy for the weaker sections and deprived communities.”

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Porsche 914 EV Conversion

MAY 1, 2007

Since I'm still waiting on parts from ElectroAuto, I decided to take the plunge and do some extensive research on Lead-Acid battery technology. The 914 AC kit uses 8V golf cart batteries and I'm wondering if different batteries like Hawkers or Optima Yellow-Top batteries would be better.

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Open Source Civic EV Kit

MAY 31, 2008

While the design of the shaft and transmission adapter is not open-source, there are many other parts (like the DC motor) that aren't open-source as well. With a clutched system, I just order the shaft and transmission adapter from Electro Auto and everything is just done.

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Charged EVs

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Before Tesla, they were seen as nerdy golf carts, far from usable as “real cars.” In other words, GM has gotten the old-time religion: You make an impression by launching new technology in your most luxurious, most noticeable, most expensive vehicles—and you make them desirable on their own merits —regardless of the electric part.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2015

At Ford, we view ourselves as both a mobility and an auto company, as we drive innovation in every part of our business. This new research center shows Ford’s commitment to be part of the Silicon Valley innovation ecosystem—anticipating customers’ wants and needs, especially on connectivity, mobility and autonomous vehicles.

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EV Adoption

JUNE 14, 2021

Would that approach be big brother entering another part of our lives? The fast acceleration capability of electric vehicles was a key component to reducing the “golf cart” image of EVs that existed before the Tesla Model S emerged in 2012.

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Porsche 914 EV Conversion

MAY 28, 2007

I should be getting the 18 8-volt golf-cart batteries from American Battery Company early next week. Napa Auto Parts is willing to sell me battery grounding straps of any length with eyelets on each end so I can hook everything together.

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Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 5, 2021

It’s basically just a souped-up golf cart, but Ford wouldn’t allow them to import it into the US. We had 100-odd signatures and sent it into the city as part of the public information request for comments,” Schalk said. “ It’s been great to be a part of that.”. Hoosier EVA outreach event.

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Porsche 914 EV Conversion

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

I received the suspension parts from ElectroAuto today. If you hadn't read before, the 18 8-volt golf cart batteries add 800 pounds to the weight of the car, so the suspension needs upgrading. It looks like I got new springs(blue), torsion bars (red) and two sets of matching shock absorbers (white/silver).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Marine applications and locomotives are not eligible under this FOA, nor are prototype or novelty vehicles, golf carts, snowmobiles and other off-road recreational or sport vehicles. A range of off-road/non-road commercial work alternative fuel or advanced technology vehicles. Blending pumps (i.e.

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Porsche 914 EV Conversion

MAY 5, 2007

I saved the latch cable tube and latch mechanism to give to Craig at camp914 as parts for someone else. It's a pity that we have to remove this, but the size of the golf-cart batteries clearly interfere with the latch. Live and learn. Here's the sawed off hood latch. The 914 uses pressure from the spare tire (??!!)

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Plug In India

DECEMBER 21, 2021

We spoke to EV community member and friend of the channel Mr Zarryl Lobo, who has 30+ years of experience building custom electric golf carts and refurbishing old EVs. Take ride sharing seriously Speak to other EV startups like eBikeGo, Mobycy, and Yulu who can offer Strom-R3 as part of their last mile transportation service.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 6, 2015

Fourteen of the 25 experiments are Ford-led research projects, and 11 are part of the company’s Innovate Mobility Challenge Series. Using Georgia Tech-owned golf carts to prove out the technology, a person sitting in a remote location can access real-time video streamed over LTE to drive the carts. —Mark Fields.

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Plugs and Cars

AUGUST 18, 2007

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. A few items before I head out to Black Rock City for two weeks.

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EV Adoption

JUNE 29, 2021

Wait, you might be thinking to yourself, what about the Tesla Model S which single-handedly changed the image of EVs from glorified golf carts into fast as all heck, 300+-mile range, aspirational computers on wheels? But in the south and middle parts of the US, Tesla’s and EVs in general, can be rare sightings. kW) versus 7.2

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Green Cars News

DECEMBER 1, 2009

Indeed REVA is braced for the future having already unveiled several new models of its own that feature sleeker looks than the G-Wiz which has often been compared to a golf cart. This two-seat sports car will also feature the drivetrain technology and REVive system and is expected to be a standout in its class for performance.

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EV Adoption

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

Tesla was the first OEM to really focus on this and made it a huge part of the Tesla brand positioning — neck snapping acceleration in a family sedan that makes you go “wow.” It was needed to eliminate the view by many that EVs were simplify glorified golf carts. But haven’t we progressed beyond that need now?

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Plug in America

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Disappointed but undeterred, we went to work and launched National Drive Elect ric Week (originally called National Plug In Day), thinking we would have had a better chance of coverage h ad our parade been part of a nationwide observance. Turns out we were right. We’re following the trend,” McCarthy said.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 22, 2009

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. and Korean golf cart maker CT&T Co. China auto parts firms face. are expected to begin producing jointly this summer.

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Electric Auto Association

APRIL 4, 2021

I cut the frame and extended it, and then a guy from the DEVC donated a golf cart motor,” he explained. “I Protecting the legacy McNeil, who has been the chapter’s very prolific newsletter editor since 2012, has made sure to do his part to enshrine EV history. But they imposed a 5-year limit, so it ended a long time ago.”

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

As electric cars move from garage conversions into mass production over the next few years, public adoption could be held back by something more crippling than battery technology: the notion that electric cars are no more than unattractive golf carts. A large part of the public perceive the electric cars they've seen so far as.ugly.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

Think Global was formerly known as Think City, a prior Ford Motor Company ( F ) acquisition and part of a now-defunct Think division at Ford. They are either glorified golf cart city cars like this one or they are only for the very wealthy like the Tesla. Think has also established partnerships in the U.S. ENON.OB ) ).

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

April 10, 2009 11:51 am Link The electric car is only part of the story in Portland. Range is another issue if electric cars are expected to be adopted by the average American and not just used as city cars. — Larry 4. Wind, hydro, DC transmission lines, and smart grid electronics are also Portland strengths.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

cheaper (frame, electric motors, battery), lasts longer (less moving parts = less to break and maintain) and just a greater win, more future compatible too. You guys go ahead and buy your 40 mile per charge GM golf cart. because most of GMs profits comes from after market parts. GM never wanted the EV1 to succeed.

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