4wheeled

Golf carts are becoming much more popular these days, even off of the greens, for their use as alternative transportation. But would you be prepared to give up your four-wheeled golf cart for a much smaller (yet still four-wheeled) electric scooter? It’s a bit wacky, but that makes it just right for this week’s Awesomely Weird Alibaba Electric Vehicle of the Week column. I’m a card-carrying member of the I Love Golf Carts alliance, or at least I would be if such a club existed. They’re just such…

Instead of delivery vans clogging up the streets of your city, package delivery could soon be handled near you by fleets of four-wheeled cargo e-bikes with spacious van-like rear ends. That’s already the case in many European cities, and now it could be spreading even farther around the globe thanks to a new partnership between Zoomo and EAV. Zoomo is a full-service commercial micromobility platform with the stated mission of “electrifying every urban mile.” Zoomo’s platform covers a wide…

Not do be outdone by the United States Postal Service testing out electric bikes as a viable alternative to mail trucks, UPS is doing its own US-based testing of e-bikes for package delivery. They may look vaguely like a UPS van or truck, but the design actually uses an electric bicycle mid-drive motor paired to a set of bicycle pedals, making this more of a quadricycle. The official name of the vehicles given to them by their builder Fernhay is the “eQuad”, which now makes a bit more sense knowing the quadricycle…