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Dear Floridians: Golf Carts Are NOT Electric Cars

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Electric car enthusiasts have struggled for years with "golf cart" jibes and only recently with cars like the 2011 Tesla Roadster and 2012 Nissan Leaf has the "ugly and slow" image started to disappear. In Florida, there's a different problem - people who believe their golf carts are actual cars.

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Tesla Model S at 36,000 miles: Car and Driver's long-term Midwest test

Green Car Reports

We're long past the days when car enthusiast publications sneered at electric cars as underpowered golf carts. Much of the credit for that goes to Tesla, the first all-electric carmaker, whose Model S won the hearts of 'buff-book' writers everywhere for its speed and shape.

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

Green Car Reports

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. 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.

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Jay Leno on Elon Musk & EVs: “I think he should get a certain amount of credit for leading the charge”

Teslarati

To be quite honest, I feel that it’s obvious that Elon Musk and Tesla are the reasons why EVs are so popular today. Tesla is the leader of the EV market and is the best-selling type of battery-electric vehicle. ” Leno shared the story of when Elon Musk visited him with the Tesla Roadster prototype in 2007.

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Are Air Cars Really An Option, Or The Next Alt-Fuel Joke?

Green Car Reports

With talented options like the Nissan Leaf, Tesla Model S and others currently on sale, it's easy to forget that a few decades ago, their image was very different. No style, no performance, no range--electric cars conjured images of glorified golf carts. Remember when electric cars were considered a bit of a joke?

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Tesla’s Q1 ’21 Deliveries prove Elon Musk was right about the Model S and X in 2019

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Tesla released its Production and Delivery figures for the first quarter of 2021 earlier today, and it proved that CEO Elon Musk was right about the Model S and Model X not being crucial to the company’s ultimate long-term growth. Tesla doesn’t need its two flagship vehicles to grow or sustain demand. He was right.

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Tesla Vs Golf Carts, Mirai Showroom, Fiat 500e Vs Beloved BMW: The Week In Reverse (Video)

Green Car Reports

Which cities have two groundbreaking new showrooms for two different zero-emission vehicles? And, what do wild bison, deer, and foxes have to do with one reader's Toyota Prius hybrid? This is our video look back at the Week In Reverse--right here at Green Car Reports--for the week ending on Friday, May 29, 2015.