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E-quipment Highlight: Club Car Urban is the most practical electric pickup in US

Electrek

Meet the Club Car UTV. A small, neighborhood-legal EV that its makers says combines the practicality of a pickup truck and the efficiency of a golf cart to shuttle workers and supplies around the job site. It’s so good, in fact, that it’s making me ask: is this the most practical electric pickup you can buy ?

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Creative Greenius Loves Hermosa Beach Sharrows & You Should Too

Creative Greenius

I think most of my friends in the South Bay Bicycle Coalition and the Beach Cities Cycling Club agree with me. Their green painted sharrow lane on 2nd Street in the Belmont Shore neighborhood produced 30% more cyclists with fewer crashes, 20% fewer cyclists riding on the sidewalk and a 50% reduction in car/bike crashes.

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

Electrek

Golf carts are no longer just for cruising the country club. In fact, these days, they’re more commonly found zipping through neighborhood streets or joy-riding around beach communities. These smaller, more efficient alternatives to traditional cars might just be a good choice for your ‘second car’, believe it or not.

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UCL study suggests reducing car use is the key to better health; the role of car sharing and other approaches

Green Car Congress

Everyone knows that walking and cycling can provide valuable physical activity, but how we actually get people out of their cars is not so obvious.

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The surprising rise of electric golf carts as ‘second cars’ in the US

Electrek

These compact, efficient, and versatile vehicles are increasingly being seen far beyond the confines of the country clubs, zipping around neighborhoods and making regular appearances in local commutes. Believe it or not, electric golf carts are becoming a popular choice as “second cars” for many American families.

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Chacarita Is Buenos Aires’s Quirkiest Neighborhood. Get There Soon.

Baua Electric

To become a city’s coolest new neighborhood, there are certain prerequisites: a crop of cafes that toe the line between cozy and snobbish, chefs combining the innovative with the Instagrammable, and shops so sincere that they are doomed to close when rents rise, which they inevitably will. But then it must also have quirks.

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E-quipment Highlight: Club Car Urban is the most practical electric pickup in US

Baua Electric

Meet the Club Car UTV. A small, neighborhood-legal EV that its makers says combines the practicality of a pickup truck and the efficiency of a golf cart to shuttle workers and supplies around the job site. The Club Car Urban UTV, on the other hand? And the Club Car Urban UTV move those 2,204 lbs. payload capacity.