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On National Golf Cart Day (seriously), here’s 10 ways they beat cars

Baua Electric

Golf carts are no longer just for cruising the country club. Thanks to US golf cart maker E-Z-GO , which partnered with National Calendar Day to help establish National Golf Cart Day in celebration of the brand’s 70th anniversary, we can now all celebrate these pint-sized car replacements with their own holiday.

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Junkyard Find: Nissan Leafpocalypse in California

The Truth About Cars

I'm not going to capitalize it, because I refuse to go along with clever annoying use of capitalization and/or punctuation marks forced on us by automotive industry marketing suits. Good replacement batteries for these cars aren't cheap. I've been documenting electric cars in junkyards for about a decade.

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Here are the coolest e-bikes and more we saw at Micromobility America 2024

Baua Electric

kg) without the battery, and that little motor is rated for either 250W or 750W, depending on the market. This kit is not cheap, priced at US $1,246 without a battery or US $1,599 with a battery. The entire kit weighs just 3.8 There’s even a compatible Android and iOS smartphone app that you can use as the kit’s dashboard.

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2022 GMC Hummer EV: the biggest, baddest, butchest EV to hit the market?

Charged EVs

Before Tesla, they were seen as nerdy golf carts, far from usable as “real cars.” The electric Hummer won’t come cheap; the starting price for the lowest-spec version announced so far—with fewer features and performance options, and only two motors—is about $80,000, and that one won’t be delivered until 2024.

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Electric Car Makers: Oregon Wants You - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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Furthermore, changing the battery pack on say a Toyota Prius often costs a fortune, at least in most European countries, so such cars better be VERY cheap, but they’re not. From renewable energy policy to carbon markets to dubious eco-advertising, our energy and environment reporters track the high-stakes pursuit of a greener globe.

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Will Biden’s new 100% tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles affect e-bikes?

Baua Electric

Any change in the tariffs on Chinese electric bicycles thus sends shockwaves through the US market. As the administration explained: “With extensive subsidies and non-market practices leading to substantial risks of overcapacity, China’s exports of EVs grew by 70% from 2022 to 2023—jeopardizing productive investments elsewhere.

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Surprising, Unsettling, Surreal: Roaming Through Saudi Arabia

Baua Electric

To me, the sign broadcast the lines being drawn to compartmentalize the country, which is now marketing itself to two sets of travelers with increasingly divergent — and sometimes contradictory — expectations: luxury tourists at ease with bikinis and cocktails, and pilgrims prepared for modesty and strict religious adherence.