cars

some people want to shit on golf carts, but they are fun as fuck. I worked a landscape management/farm job at this one place where we would use the landscape version of golf carts (electric, 2 seater, back is a dumpable cargo box that could hold 300lbs of whatever, off-road tires) and they were awesome for zipping around or bringing materials to little beds, tucked away and in inconvenient spots.

I understand and appreciate the enthusiasm for big equipment, but they are not appropriate for 95% of the use cases. sure I needed the tractor and loader for tillage and bed shaping and moving tons of materials, but just idling that fucker is like $35-55 an hour in associated material costs/depreciation. even a little pickup truck is like $12-20 an hour. electric golf carts are like pocket change. and you just plug em in over night. they're genius.

I wonder what he would think if he came to a typical American city and saw all the AMERICAN-SIZED monstrous SUVs and trucks.

They'd need to have a "skitching" kit installed. Get close, grab on, get a free ride.

That thing is dope! I'd never get one in the US, though. Too much reliance on highways means the top speed and charge time prevent it from being able to go anywhere outside of your immediate city.

Incidentally, that puts it on track to sell more EVs in Japan than the world’s biggest automaker, Toyota Motor, which shifted around such 2,000 vehicles in all of 2024.

Maybe people in Japan who'd buy EVs in other countries just use public transport and bikes, etc. but this is much lower than I thought.

This kind of reminds me of the Twike. It’s another small electric car that you peddle. I’ve seen one person with it around the area lately.