Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2010

In June, Balqon entered into an agreement with Electric Cars of Costa Rica, a distributor of light duty trucks, golf carts, trams and neighborhood electric vehicles in Costa Rica.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Golf carts aren’t just for golfers anymore. In fact, they’re getting much more use away from the golfing green as an alternative to cars in neighborhoods all over the US. Now Kandi America’s new collapsible mini golf cart is trying to reframe the concept of low-impact urban transportation.

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Electrek

MARCH 22, 2023

Open-air neighborhood electric vehicles , fancy golf carts , and other small vehicles tend to blur the line, leaving microcars in that weird category of “I know it when I see it.” There are a few different street-legal microcar-style EVs in the US, but most take the form of golf cart-style buggies.

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Baua Electric

JUNE 14, 2024

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. Here are 10 compelling reasons why golf carts might just be the better choice for your local transportation needs.

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Clean Fleet Report

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

A Small, Slow EV That Has Found an Expanding Niche You don’t need a high-speed sports car or heavy-duty truck when driving around your neighborhood. 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.

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Electrek

MAY 31, 2023

In Part 1 of this series titled “Everything you need to know about electric micro-cars, NEVs, LSVs, & golf carts,” we discussed the various categories of micro-cars, neighborhood electric vehicles (NEVs), low-speed vehicles (LSVs), and golf carts.

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Open Source Civic EV Kit

APRIL 7, 2008

While people can purchase neighborhood electric vehicles today for about $10K, they only have a top speed of 35 miles an hour or so, essentially glorified golf-carts. With rising gasoline prices, I believe the demand for freeway capable electric vehicles is going to increase over the next few years.

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All Cars Electric

DECEMBER 21, 2009

Oklahoma-based, Drive Electric, sells neighborhood electric vehicles (NEVs - a.k.a. electric golf carts) made by Western Golf Cars and Zone Electric. A headline like the one above begs the question, "What's the catch?" Can you really get an electric car for free? Well, kinda.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Light-duty Neighborhood electric vehicles (if replacing full-size on-road vehicles). Marine applications and locomotives are not eligible under this FOA, nor are prototype or novelty vehicles, golf carts, snowmobiles and other off-road recreational or sport vehicles. LMHDV Fuel cell electric vehicles.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 29, 2015

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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Baua Electric

MAY 7, 2024

Microcars, often referred to as quadricycles in Europe and Low-Speed Vehicles (LSVs) or Neighborhood Electric Vehicles (NEVs) in the US, are a niche category designed largely for urban travel. 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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Baua Electric

JANUARY 2, 2025

Ukrainian security services claimed responsibility for the attack, which occurred outside Kirillovs building in a Moscow neighborhood. For example, its golf cart-mounted soldiers fared much worse when attempting to storm Ukrainian positions last year.

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Baua Electric

JULY 21, 2024

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. Meet the Club Car UTV. 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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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Zhenmin golf cart factory tour Zhenmin gave me access to their entire factory to see how electric golf carts and neighborhood electric vehicles are produced. I started with a lifted electric golf cart built for a US-based company (though I had to cover the brands logos).

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

For entertainment, hit the arty Getseman neighborhood, outside the old city walls, which is known for its street musicians, murals, bars and restaurants arrayed around the Plaza de la Trinidad. Golf cart rentals are another popular way to explore the peninsula ($55 a day from Barefoot Services ). San Juan, P.R.

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Electric Auto Association

APRIL 4, 2021

I cut the frame and extended it, and then a guy from the DEVC donated a golf cart motor,” he explained. “I Started with two wheels McNeil’s first experience in converting EVs came in 1976 with a 1967 Yamaha Big Bear he found in his hometown of Colorado Springs. “I

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Baua Electric

MAY 29, 2024

I’m talking about Low Speed Vehicles (LSVs) , the official term for what many people call Neighborhood Electric Vehicles (NEVs). Several golf cart makers have LSV versions , though they’re open-air vehicles that don’t have many of the same advantages of enclosed microcars. Err, actually, I probably shouldn’t call them “cars”.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 28, 2025

In Italy, tourists will be limited to 20,000 a day in Pompeii, and new legislation in Florence may prevent tourists from using golf carts to tool around. And in South Korea, authorities have imposed a curfew in a historic neighborhood of Seoul to dampen tourist excesses. Will regulations work?

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Baua Electric

DECEMBER 3, 2024

The sister show to Micromobility Europe , this year’s North American conference moved to Southern California, bringing to Costa Mesa an array of just about every type of micromobility device you could imagine, from e-bikes, e-scooters and fully-fledged electric motorcycles to four-wheeled neighborhood electric vehicles.

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