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On National Golf Cart Day (seriously), here’s 10 ways they beat cars

Baua Electric

Golf carts are no longer just for cruising the country club. These smaller, more efficient alternatives to traditional cars might just be a good choice for your ‘second car’, believe it or not. Here are 10 compelling reasons why golf carts might just be the better choice for your local transportation needs.

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Kandi America launches three new low-cost electric go-karts for off-roading

Baua Electric

Kandi America , best known for its range of electric golf carts and eUTVs, has just unveiled three new electric go-karts designed for off-roading fun. The few electric off-road karts that exist are either designed for children, have specs so pitiful that they ruin the fun, or cost as much as a car.

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China is testing more driverless cars than any other country – ET Auto

Baua Electric

Many Chinese makers of electric cars are introducing advanced assisted driving features on their mass-production cars. The world’s largest experiment in driverless cars is underway on the busy streets of Wuhan, a city in central China with 11 million people, 4.5 Then there are the safety issues. No one was injured.

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IIHS awards Chevrolet Volt & Nissan Leaf top ratings in 1st US crash tests of mainstream electric cars

Green Car Congress

The Chevrolet Volt and Nissan Leaf earned the highest safety ratings from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety in the first US crash test evaluations of plug-in electric cars. IIHS says that the result demonstrates that automakers are using the same safety engineering in new electric cars as they do in gasoline-powered vehicles.

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Feature: Are Electric Fire Trucks in the Near Future?

Clean Fleet Report

Another Niche Filled by an Electric Version. Electric cars, trucks and buses are slowly making their way onto roads. million electric vehicle sales to date. Hybrid and fully electric vehicles are already available for a variety of commercial and personal uses. However, the vehicle isn’t fully electric.

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An Easy EV Conversion Kit For People

Open Source Civic EV Kit

After spending the past year and a half converting a Porsche 914 to an electric vehicle, I decided to expand my horizons by designing an open-source electric vehicle (EV) conversion kit for a commonly used car. This project started about a month ago when I became co-chair of the Oregon Electric Vehicles Association.

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Test Drive to Work

Porsche 914 EV Conversion

Shifting was a real pain on city streets since the electric motor changes RPM very quickly during acceleration or regeneration. The RPM stays constant when I "coast" unlike a gasoline engine which tends to slowly drift back to "idle." I'm not sure how much current these golf cart batteries are designed for.

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