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Awesomely Weird Alibaba Electric Vehicle of the Week: Your Own Working Backyard Electric Train

Electrek

And through the magic of the internet and a crazy little corner of it known as the electric vehicle section of the Alibaba Chinese shopping site, that dream is closer to a reality than you might have expected.

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This Chinese electric car is almost entirely windows

Baua Electric

One of my favorite parts of perusing Alibaba for fun and outlandish electric vehicles is seeing just how creative the designers can become. It’s definitely a qualifier for the Awesomely Weird Alibaba Electric Vehicle of the Week column and hopefully helps us finish the year strong!

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NIO's 1st NIO House in Netherlands to open on Mar 23

CN EV Post

With the NIO House, NIO hopes to make this lifestyle available to users in every city, so that outsiders will think that buying an NIO vehicle is not just getting a car, but joining a high-end lifestyle group. On October 1, 2021, NIO opened an NIO House in Norway, its first such facility in Europe.

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This new style of electric tuk-tuk makes me want to drive a taxi in India

Baua Electric

It may just be one of my favorite Awesomely Weird Alibaba Electric Vehicle of the Week entries in a while based on just how useful it looks! Got some kids you need to shuttle down the neighborhood to a friend’s house? I’ve got my hands full with a few containers of Chinese EVs as it is. Throw ’em in! I’m not kidding.

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China to regulate, rein in low-speed electric cars used in rural areas

Green Car Reports

last year to become the world's largest market for electric cars. But a large portion of the vehicles included in Chinese new-car sales tallies are low-speed electric vehicles that would not meet U.S. Now Chinese regulators are paying more attention to these vehicles. China overtook the U.S.

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GreenTech Auto shutters its doors, closes Mississippi factory

Green Car Reports

The harsh reality of high costs and the inexorable heft of the auto industry have claimed another electric-car startup. GreenTech Automotive opened a plant in Mississippi in 2014, first saying it would manufacture a small, two-seat electric vehicle called the MyCar there.

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China Built 25,000 Electric Cars & Plug-In Hybrids In June Alone

Green Car Reports

The Chinese vehicle market is now the world's largest, and has been for a few years now. And the country's government-industrial complex has ambitious plans to dominate global production of plug-in electric vehicles, both for reasons of competitiveness and as one effort to start to reduce its endemic and hazardous air pollution.

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