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Wouldn’t you rather be driving one of these? Electric cars are the wave of the future, the wave advanced sustainability owners can ride today. Sick of the nauseating stuff we are doing to the planet? Get a car that doesn’t produce more! Get an electric car that DaimlerChrysler put out.
The perfect solution, of course, is the sustainable re-use of one of these cars after their first owner has dne with it. But since they last so long, why would anyone give them up? I took it upon myself to find where the good second hand or gently used electric cars were being recycled into the commercial used car market.
I spoke with a woman today who owned the above vehicle. She said it goes about 25 mph, just enough speed to toodle around town.
I looked in the Los Angeles Times section for one of these used. Couldn’t find one. Something called “Cars.com” didn’t know what I was talking about. if they had them might be listed under golf carts. But evidently they are roadworthy.
She said she gets beeps and pulls over when there is a line of cars waiting to pass. She mentioned watching the students at the nearby high school scrambling for parking every morning, when they really just needed vehicles like these.
She said she paid about $3,000 for it, and it would likely cost about $6,000 now. She mentioned she bought the car when she was concerned about pollution’s effect on the planet. She said she had just taken her dog to the grooming parlor, and that she talked to more people driving it than she would ever have believed.
I kept eyeing the car close up. The construction values seemed to be somewhere in the middle of a plastic toddler’s toy of opaque plastic with wheels attached, and the dashboard tray looked weirdly automotive with this idea in mind. The go-cart footprint vied with a golf cart vibe.
The seat looked very narrow, as though only spry seniors and teenagers might fit, given Americans and their ample standards of person derriere “bandwidth”. But the unreality of her keys starting the “machine” was weird. She was going out into traffic with that thing!
This great gal mentioned to me that the people passing her on the road were the same ones she caught up to at the light. I thought about how much easier on the parking a vehicle that would be in Southern California. She mentioned she actually had problems finding places small enough to park.
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