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GEM creates first mapping tool for low-speed roads

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LSVs are more than a golf cart—they are street legal on most roads posted 35 mph or less. In cities such as Washington, DC, with a default speed limit of 20 mph, LSVs can get anywhere in the city and beyond. GEM has been producing low-speed electric vehicles for more than 25 years and has sold more than 65,000 of them.

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Electrify America, Sacramento announce Green City investments: ZEV car-sharing, ZEV bus and shuttle routes, EV charging systems

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This service allows users to pick up and drop off a vehicle at any legal public parking spot, including metered locations, within a 13 sq. More than 90 percent of the micro-shuttle’s service territory is in a low-income or disadvantaged Sacramento neighborhood. mile “Home Zone.” EV CHARGING INFRASTRUCTURE.

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Pike forecasts NEV market to remain small, although with double the growth rate of light-duty vehicles to 2017

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The total number of neighborhood electric vehicles (NEVs)—low-speed street-legal electric vehicles—on the world’s roadways will grow from 479,000 in 2011 to 695,000 by 2017, a 45% increase, according to a new forecast by Pike Research. Motors are either DC or three-phase AC. Source: Pike Research. Click to enlarge.

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The promise of wireless charging: smaller batteries, longer battery life, fewer charging stations

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We connect high-power communication lines into the DC charging system of the car. And the more they do that, the vehicles are actually not road-legal—they’re violating the axle weight limits. It’s in the pavement at a bus stop in the middle of a residential neighborhood. And we’re like, “Yeah, that’s the point.”