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NEV (Neighborhood Electric Vehicle)


Buy a Bad Boy Buggie, kill save big bucks

Bad Boy Buggies markets its tough all-terrain vehicles using the slogan "They'll Never Hear You Coming" to hunters who generally are of a mind to slay whatever bucks they can track down. Well, now they can save them too. No, not the four-legged woodland creatures with the white fur on the underside of their tails which are quite tasty. Rather the paper-with-pictures-of-past-presidents-kind. Lots of them. The cash comes in the form of a $5,590 tax-credit and applies to versions of their vehicles outfitted with all the lights, seatbelts ... Read more →

Oklahomans battling over the cost of NEVs. Should they be free?

Low-speed, neighborhood electric vehicles are an interesting case. No one thinks of them as "real cars" – although the Wheego Whip, above, tries to be the Cadillac of NEVs – but they ...

Quick Spin: GGT Cozmo NEV - rickety things come in pricey packages

GreenGo Tek is a boastful little electric vehicle company. A press release issued by GGT over the summer to announce the new Cozmo neighborhood electric vehicle stated that, because the company ...

Paris business district will test self-driving NEVs in busy square

If you think that crossing la Défense square on foot is tiring, you'll be glad to know that you might soon be able to do it while sleeping. How, you ask? Because Paris' largest business ...

eBay Find of the Day: three low-speed electric cars for $13,500

How much is too much for a neighborhood electric vehicle? If you're talking about a somewhat unknown NEV that looks like a smart fortwo, can go about 60 miles per charge at a speed of 28 mph and are ...

AltCar 2009: Wheego Whip Quick Drive - is this the Cadillac of NEVs? 1 month ago on Autoblog Green

Is the Wheego Whip "The Cadillac of Neighborhood Electric Vehicles"? That's one description that we heard during our very short test drive of the NEV during the Santa Monica Alt Car Expo last weekend. Marc Korchin, owner of the Green Motors electric vehicles dealership in Berkeley, rode with us ...

REPORT: IIHS concerned with growing popularity of Neighborhood Electric Vehicles 1 month ago on Autoblog Green

According to a report from the Wall Street Journal, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety is concerned with the growing popularity of Neighborhood Electric Vehicles. Specifically, the IIHS worries that these vehicles are increasingly being allowed to travel on public roads where traffic ...

Meet the Luis: a Chinese-German EV for under €12,000 2 months ago on Autoblog Green

German company Luis has announced that its Luis Free EV is now on sale for less than €12,000. The car, which is built in China by a non-disclosed partner, can be ordered with two different power outputs: 5.5 kW and 8 kW under the fiberglass bodywork. The low-power model, which reaches a ...

IIHS maps America's Medium Speed Vehicle rules 2 months ago on Autoblog Green

There's a lot of grey in the map above, and each grey state indicates that there is no local law there defining the rules for medium-speed vehicles (MSVs). We've written plenty about low-speed vehicles, but what's an MSV? It's a car that " has some safety equipment such as lights, reflectors, ...

Polaris Industries launches Breeze NEV, a golf cart that's proud to be a golf cart 4 months ago on Autoblog Green

As expected, Polaris Industries has just announced its first neighborhood electric vehicle. The new machine comes courtesy of the motorsports manufacturer's recently-created On-Road Division and will be available at select Polaris dealerships starting this September. As far as the vehicle goes, ...



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