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Everything you need to know about electric micro-cars, NEVs, LSVs, & golf carts

Electrek

They’re a small but growing category of motor vehicles in the US, and they may just save us from a future of massive, energy-guzzling vehicles that can somehow plow through a playground without noticing yet still struggle to wiggle into a parking spot.

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DAIHEN leverages WiTricity wireless charging technology for solar-powered mobility demo in Japan

Green Car Congress

at Expo Park in Osaka, Japan, to showcase next-generation mobility services using a small electric vehicle, similar in size and functionality to a golf cart, and a solar-powered wireless charging system, provided by DAIHEN. Our demonstration in Osaka proved that renewable energy coupled with autonomy creates a smart mobility future.

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Tesla Not Disruptive, Future Is Tiny Electric 'Golf Carts': Harvard Scholar

Green Car Reports

Friday's the day we use for the stranger and more oddball stories in our lineup, and one of the more unusual we've seen in a while comes from Harvard University. It's an article--actually a handful of articles--covering research by a scholar of "disruption" who argues that Silicon Valley startup carmaker Tesla Motors isn't disruptive.

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Feature: Are Electric Fire Trucks in the Near Future?

Clean Fleet Report

The Future of Electric Emergency Vehicles. Various other companies are currently designing and developing fleets of fully electric emergency vehicles, including golf carts for police and ATVs for search-and-rescue operations. The post Feature: Are Electric Fire Trucks in the Near Future? A Slow but Sure Transition.

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You Haven’t Seen Blue Until You’ve Seen San Andres

Baua Electric

A bikini and a golf cart Although the beaches of San Andres are not among the most beautiful in the world, the water a short distance offshore is, thanks to the sunken reefs, and so many visitors skip exploring the interior of the island in favor of getting wet. I’d never driven a golf cart any significant distance, so when Ms.

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50 Years Later, This Apollo-Era Antenna Still Talks to Voyager 2

Cars That Think

When the space agency sent Curiosity , a golf cart–size rover, to explore the Gale crater and Mount Sharp on Mars in 2011, DSS-43 tracked Curiosity as it made its nail-biting seven-minute descent into Mars’s atmosphere.

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Wardwizard unveils cutting-edge electric vehicle concepts at the 10th Vibrant Gujarat Global Summit | Autocar Professional

Baua Electric

Under the brand name “Joy e-bike” for electric two-wheelers and “Joy e-rik” for electric commercial vehicles, the company unveiled six concept models, offering a glimpse into the future of sustainable transportation.

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