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Awesomely Weird Alibaba Electric Vehicle of the Week: $500 Three-wheeled electric motorcycle

Electrek

Mother Nature may be beautiful, powerful, and mystifying, but it’s Father Time who eventually catches up with all of us. We grow into kids on our first real bike, then progress towards power as we mount our first motorcycle. And one day, without fail, Father Time catches us all. The horsepower grows. The torque climbs higher.

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Failed SONDORS Metacycle motorcycle was never street legal, reveals employee

Baua Electric

A former SONDORS employee has revealed new details regarding the Metacycle electric motorcycle sold by the now-defunct SONDORS e-bike company, describing the project as “a freight train wreck turned into a dumpster fire.” Bill has a long history as an engineer working with electric motorcycle designs and a rider himself.

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2020 Ford Escape Hybrid, Byton M-Byte, Lightning Strike: Today's Car News

Green Car Reports

Chinese Tesla rival Byton reveals the M-byte testing in winter. The Lightning Strike electric motorcycle is out. And our latest Twitter poll asks what kind of electric-car racing matters most. All this and more on Green Car Reports. When the updated Ford Escape.

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China’s Chery to set up shop in Europe

Baua Electric

Chinese automaker Chery is planning to make cars in Spain, where the EV market is at just 12%, half that of Portugal and France. Given the slow uptake of electric vehicles in Spain, Chery says it plans to make combustion engine, hybrid, and electric vehicles there. This would be Chery’s first manufacturing site in Europe.

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Asian EV Manufacturers You Should Know

Clean Fleet Report

100 7587 0 7587 0 0 6933 0 --:--:-- 0:00:01 --:--:-- 6935The company was formed in 2003 and has seen a steady growth since then—selling a variety of different models, including hybrids and all-electric cars. Zhidou Zhidou is a Chinese manufacturer of electric microcars. Clean Fleet Report reviewed the Vinfast VF 8 here.

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Honda Speaks About Near Future, EV Plans

The Truth About Cars

Honda has plans for a mid- to large-size electric vehicle to debut for sale in North America in 2025, based on a dedicated platform. It's not just electric cars the company has set its sights on. Honda claims to be launching 10 electric motorcycles globally by 2025. The ultimate goal is electric motorcycle sales of 3.5

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The $5000 E-Cherry Picker from Alibaba

Get Electric Vehicle

But they all have two things in common: they drive around and put people to places the gods didn’t intend for them to go. The Best Electric Lift On Alibaba. The exciting part about Alibaba’s electric cherry picker is that the 10-metre version is only the beginning. Some Of The Uses Of Cherry Pickers.