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

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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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History of the GEM Car and a Look at Its Future

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Instead, you can get by with a low-speed vehicle like a golf cart or bicycle. While they look like golf carts, GEM’s electric cars stand out among small vehicles. The batteries mean they have zero emissions and are better for the environment than gas-powered cars or golf carts.

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EV-maker Eli launches its $11,900 electric micro ‘car’ in the US

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Screenshot The model heading stateside is an upgraded version designed to meet the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s regulations for LSVs, allowing it to be street-legal at the federal level. The funny thing here is that I can already tell you what the detractors are going to say: that it’s an overpriced, glorified golf cart.

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I went back to China to tour more e-bike factories and visit companies. Here’s what I saw

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However, the working environment has improved considerably for certain tasks like fine soldering that are still done by highly trained hands. That bike, the street-legal NIU XQi3, was impressively powerful, and I had to be careful to keep the front wheel down when rolling off the line.

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Bans, Fees, Taxes. Can Anything Stop Overtourism?

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By the middle of the last decade, cities like Amsterdam and Barcelona had begun taking tentative steps to relieve tourisms impacts on infrastructure, housing, the environment and quality of life. A longstanding problem As early as 2010, tourism experts observed that some destinations were approaching or had exceeded their carrying capacity.

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