Low Speed Vehicle

Turning a Porsche Boxster, a 1950s Studebaker and even a Hummer into electric vehicles. Hawaii’s Electric Car Conversions Go to Source

Palm Spring’s Office of Sustainability recently received a grant that could have city officials burning up volts of electric power as they motor throughout the city. City to use grant money to buy electric vehicle Go to Source

Palm Spring’s Office of Sustainability recently received a grant that could have city officials burning up volts of electric power as they motor throughout the city. City to use grant money to buy electric vehicle Go to Source

Charles Samuel Greenwood invented the HumanCar , a neighborhood electric vehicle (NEV) powered by electricity and human rowing power. Early prototypes achieved over 60mph (96kph) in downhill runs, with stable handling and steered by the front drivers leaning to one side or the other. It has been developed into a street legal, low speed vehicle, [...]

Evatran introduces a “hands free” EV charging station that eliminates the need to remember to recharge at the end of the day–or dirty your hands. EV charging station recharges without wires Go to Source

ChargeCar reimagines plug-in vehicles By Bill O’Driscoll. Who (Re)Built the Electric Car? Go to Source

Many of the third agers in my parent’s over-55 planned community have shifted into a period of reinvention that looks surprisingly like the eco-DIY movements more associated with a younger demographic. Kirsten Dirksen: The Beauty of Slow Driving: Living With a Golf Cart As a Second Car (VIDEO) Go to Source

STOCKTON, Calif.—-Today, Electric Vehicles International hosted an event at their headquarters in Stockton, California announcing the signing of an agreement with Kyoho Manufacturing California to support displaced northern California auto supplier workers laid off by the closure of the NUMMI Production Plant. Congressman McNerney Celebrates Electric Vehicles International and Kyoho Manufacturing Company Agreement to Employ [...]

Cruising Norco at 19 miles per hour, Paul Rodriguez has his foot on the gas, sort of. He’s trying to take neighborhood electric vehicles like the one he’s driving farther than ever before in Southern California — in more ways than one. Video: Small electric vehicles likely to lead the charge on city streets Go [...]

Chrysler’s Peapod neighborhood electric vehicle always seemed like more of an experiment than a profit-maker, and unfortunately idealism isn’t too popular with creditors — according to Edmunds , the Peapod was canceled in March as part of the company’s bankruptcy proceedings. Apparently adapting the Peapod’s button-cute design to federal safety standards was overly expensive, so [...]