Electric vehicles are usually designed to look and behave like traditional cars, but a few companies are taking inspiration from an unlikely source: the golf cart. The Verge’s Andy Hawkins explains how Amble, Chip, and others are reimagining these low-speed, open-platform runabouts as street-legal electric vehicles. The catch? They only work if the speed limit stays low, creating a new niche between micromobility and full-sized cars.
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Golf carts as the foundation for new street-legal EVs
Companies like Amble and Chip are redesigning the humble golf cart to serve as a new category of street-legal electric vehicle optimized for low-speed local driving.
A new kind of vehicle that's neither car nor golf cart
Amble and Chip aim to create an entirely new category of vehicle that combines the openness and simplicity of a golf cart with the street legality and amenities of a car.