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As Elon Musk Abandons the $25K Tesla, This EV Costs Just $4,400

by dragonbonheur on 5/12/24, 6:47 AM with 5 comments

• by ZeroGravitas on 5/12/24, 11:02 AM

  I'm not a golfer, but I'm always surprised by the scorn expressed for "golf carts" as local transport.

  My brief interactions with even decades old, lead acid powered golf buggies was that they were a lot of fun to drive.

  And I believe there are actually many communities were these are the go to solution.

  I've also heard that golf carts with solar panels strapped to the roof are the latest thing in prepper circles.

• by throwaway4good on 5/12/24, 7:23 AM

  Cars and transportation more broadly is under heavy regulation and political control. Part of it for obviously good reason. The rest of it for not so good reason.

  There should be innovation in vehicle form and size now that electric batteries and motors have become cheap and abundant; cars such as the depicted would already be whizzing around town if we were free to buy them but of course we are not.

  Perhaps innovation will happen outside the west where the politics of this is less locked down by special interests and overall conservatism.

• by jokoon on 5/12/24, 2:21 PM

  Vehicle regulations, norms and crash test etc are not the same in china, and obviously it makes EU/US cars more expensive.

  Although it's obvious that those norms are probably bad and are created by the automotive lobby.