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This awesome Chinese golf cart looks more like a mini-electric jeep

Electrek

My regular readers will know that I’ve got quite a thing for golf carts. And that’s exactly what’s happened this week with the discovery of this fun jeep-like electric golf cart! And that’s exactly what’s happened this week with the discovery of this fun jeep-like electric golf cart!

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Awesomely Weird Alibaba Electric Vehicle of the Week: This $800 Chinese Golf Cart

Electrek

Having spent a year now writing this Awesomely Weird Alibaba Electric Vehicle of the Week column , I’ve had the opportunity to enjoy discovering all sorts of unique Chinese design themes. And this week’s bizarre little electric golf cart is a great example of just how awesome that design can be.

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Tesla’s biggest rival in China: an in-depth look at the $4,200 Wuling HongGuang Mini EV

Teslarati

It’s no Tesla, but it did secure over 119,250 total sales in 2020 alone, making it the second best-selling EV in the Chinese market, trailing the Tesla Model 3. Many Tesla enthusiasts have called the Mini EV a “golf cart” because of its size and price point, and really that isn’t far off.

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InDEED, a success

Electric Auto Association

Programs were conducted in English, Spanish, and Manderin Chinese. Sponsored by the EAA and Plug In America , DEED featured events in 34 states , as well as Canada, Mexico, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and the Dominican Republic.

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Embracing a century of EV history

Electric Auto Association

Steiner designed the prototype himself, basing it on the 1908 model, and then engaged the Chinese manufacturer. It’s basically just a souped-up golf cart, but Ford wouldn’t allow them to import it into the US. They make sightseeing vehicles, and they’d built an EV that resembled a Ford Model T,” Steiner said.

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Embracing a century of EV history

Electric Auto Association

Steiner designed the prototype himself, basing it on the 1908 model, and then engaged the Chinese manufacturer. It’s basically just a souped-up golf cart, but Ford wouldn’t allow them to import it into the US. They make sightseeing vehicles, and they’d built an EV that resembled a Ford Model T,” Steiner said.

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

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The battery-powered cars that Chinese companies are showing are intended to be much less expensive than those planned by big foreign companies. Chinese auto makers also showed other types of "new energy" vehicles, including regular gasoline-electric hybrids to compete with Toyota Motor Corp.s Brilliance Jinbei Automobile Co.