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Kandi’s new collapsible electric golf cart is the latest tiny EV coming for your neighborhood

Baua Electric

Golf carts aren’t just for golfers anymore. In fact, they’re getting much more use away from the golfing green as an alternative to cars in neighborhoods all over the US. Now Kandi America’s new collapsible mini golf cart is trying to reframe the concept of low-impact urban transportation.

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I test-drove the only street-legal electric microcar in the US, and it’s wild

Electrek

Open-air neighborhood electric vehicles , fancy golf carts , and other small vehicles tend to blur the line, leaving microcars in that weird category of “I know it when I see it.” Now after recently test-driving one myself from the New York-based startup Wink Motors , now I definitely know it.

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Driving electric in an oil capital

Electric Auto Association

The site has definitely been improving with his help.”. Unfortunately, when the assigned HEAA member arrived at the auto show with his Model S, security guards in golf carts quickly converged, blocking the entrance. “It gives you the locations of the chargers and how much time it will take to charge.” “The Chapter meetings.

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Test Drive to Work

Porsche 914 EV Conversion

I'm not sure how much current these golf cart batteries are designed for. The controller cuts current to the motor if the voltage drops, so I definitely lost power on the uphill exit ramp off the freeway. The battery voltage sunk from 152 volts at rest down to 132 volts after awhile during heavy acceleration.

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Hauling Lead and Confusing Connections

Porsche 914 EV Conversion

These high-capacity 8-volt golf-cart batteries are 70 pounds apiece. I'll definitely take some ibuprofen before tomorrow. I got this battery strap at a Yamaha golf cart dealer. Tonight was an evening of heavy lifting. Here are the batteries in the front box. The fuel compartment box. And the rear box.

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Electric Car Watch #9: Where is the Strom-R3 electric car?

Plug In India

That is definitely concerning. We spoke to EV community member and friend of the channel Mr Zarryl Lobo, who has 30+ years of experience building custom electric golf carts and refurbishing old EVs. Apart from angel funding, Strom is yet to raise serious capital from investors. We still don’t have news on this.

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"Spirit" and the First EVer in the World Plug-in Parade in Santa Monica, California - 17 January 2009

Spirit of DC - PHEV3A

I think Ed Kjaer, head of electric transportation for Southern California Edison, had the best quote at the podium saying that nobody should think EVs are just golf carts or that the technology isn’t ready: “It is so ready. The country is ready, the market is ready, the people are ready and news flash, the technology is ready.”

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