China enters the golf cart, er, electric vehicle market

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Zap cars of Santa Rosa, CA. has been selling a 40 MPH, 3-wheeled electric car in the US for over two years, at around the same price as the Flybo. Take a look on YouTube; there are several dedicated owners with clips posted. Yes, it is more of a hobbyist industry at the moment; even the Tesla will need a higher-than-average interest level (along with amount of disposable income) on the part of the owner. I think that is OK, and only serves to lay the groundwork for success and improve the product. Look at the adoption of radio, the internal combustion automobiles and the home computer- it was the same as I believe the electric car will be. I am in the unique position of working down the street from Tesla and around the corner from a ZAP dealer, so I see both ends of the viability spectrum for electric cars on a weekly basis!

Enough with the Global Warming crap. Scientific consensus is starting to form that we may be nearing the end of the natural warming cycle we are in. Al Gore is a fraud. Find a new religion if that is what you are looking for. There are other, better reasons to use energy efficiently.

It looks like a great job of fitting a vehicle to the needs of the people. With roads full of bicycles, 25 MPH seems like it is fast enough. Aerodynamic drag is relatively unimportant below 25 MPH. Where most bicyclists have already been mowed down, as in our country, 80 MPH is meaningful. A whole different kind of machine is needed to cover the distances we drive. Aptera recognizes this reality. Miastrada Corp. is also designing a high efficiency vehicle, where very efficient aerodynamic performance is made possible in a narrow vehicle through the use of an articulated wheel system.

I am reading a lot about the interworking of China, but has anyone purchased one of these vehicles? And, I might add, have any kind of knowledge base to discuss it's pro's and con's. Perhaps that would be a good place to start this discussion site.

Why buy another car that puts more of us out of work. sending our jobs to china. why not put preasure on our govertment to lower taxes, and regualation. Send the regulation and tax fruitcakes to china.. why not develope an all american or non nafta vehicle. I''m not buying it I''m tired of buying crap from china that doesn''t last. I''m sick and tired of crap! that includes the big names like cisco..ge...gm.. stop charging us premium prices for Chinese junk.

Someone asked for a kilowatt calculation. It takes about 5 kwh to fully charge the Flybo. At $08./kwh, that would be $.40 for a full charge that will take you about 80 miles. That's a half-a-cent per mile compared with about $.10 per mile on a car getting 20mpg@$4.00/gallon (which is probably what the price will be in six months).

Why send more money to the slavelords in China, when we can buy a stoopid SUV and enrich the slavelords here in the USA? You KNOW this jalopy will be made of the crappiest possible materials, like most of the other stuff coming from that country.

where's the pricing, on golf carts there no pricing,on all the web sites useing china for golf carts theres no pricing on any web. site?

so many conversions are out there that are so much nicer than this and for cheaper. Mechanically they are so simple too -not going to break-down

Try a GEM (gemcar . com). It costs less and is in production.

I drive a 2000 Ford EV Ranger. With a 50 mile range, 4 hr recharge NiMH battery pack and 80 mph top speed. Why was Ford so stupid as to stop making these? I almost bought a NEV but they are very limited in useful applications

you guys like and want to ignore the fact that chinese living standard has been raised multiple times compared with its 20 years ago. even free india can''t do this. go to china and take a look before you say something bad. get you and your wife a 95k freedom tesla each, sure you gonna have freedom on the road, not on your loan burden.

"Flybo is made in a country with basically capitalisim economy." Well, uh, yeah, if you are willing to ignore the virtually slave labor for most (not all) of the workforce, not to mention the oppressive role of the gov't. on the social side. (I know, I know, U.S. is not so "free" as it once was, either, and Charlie evidently wants to make it less so, but, I don't want to get TOO far into political discussion...) More to my original point, consumers might tolerate present day reliability (lack thereof) of high tech batteries for their cameras and laptops, but, for their CARS??? "Not for me", either!

Ah, YESSS!!! Chinese batteries to depend on!!!

Can someone please do the calculation of Kilowatts per Mile and get back to me. I need to know if my drive to the liquor store will cost me more than a 1987 Sonoma Valley Pinot.

I want one now, it would take care of 99% of my needs. Now if they bring the price down to about half of that it will be a decent priced usable car. $13000 is way too much for a covered golf cart.

Hi Why don't you guys do a story on the Tesla? It's from a FREE country and a lot more like the cars most of us would like to drive than this "little brown nugget"... The general public needs to see that EV's don't have to be opressive little 40 mph poop-boxes.

When I first saw this I imagined in my mind how far from a 1799 lb car that can only go 40 mph we will end up in the years ahead!