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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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This Chinese electric car is almost entirely windows

Baua Electric

It’s definitely a qualifier for the Awesomely Weird Alibaba Electric Vehicle of the Week column and hopefully helps us finish the year strong! The rear units look like they’re barely a hand wide and the front is perhaps half of that again, but the designers definitely weren’t about to spend a penny more on body panels than they had to.

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In the Caribbean, EVs leave ICE vehicles behind

Electric Auto Association

Of course, they have to offer other Nissan models as well, but their focus has definitely been on driving electric.” “The I was at a trade fair and I saw this little neighborhood electric vehicle (NEV). There was no NEV legislation on the books that made it legal,” White said. “I They trained a mechanic to be EV-certified.

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

Green Car Congress

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. Annual worldwide NEV sales by region, 2011–2017. Source: Pike Research.

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Proposed Changes to Federal EV Tax Credit – Part 4: Chinese-Assembled Vehicles Will Not Be Eligible for Tax Credit

EV Adoption

Effective January 1, 2022, electric vehicles with final assembly* (see definition at the end) in China would no longer qualify for IRC 30D (federal EV tax credit). Kandi also offers the two EVs as NEVs (neighborhood electric vehicles) and those could end up being Kandi’s near-term focus instead. Kandi K27 – Source: Kandi.