The Vergecast - The car of the future is an EV golf cart

Episode Date: July 21, 2026

So far, most electric vehicles have looked more or less like cars. But recently, a few companies have looked to another, smaller mode of transport for inspiration. The Verge's Andy Hawkins explains why companies like Amble and Chip are reinventing the golf cart, in the hopes of creating an entirely new kind of street-legal vehicle. As long as the speed limit stays low. Further reading: ⁠The Light Flip is a minimalist flip phone with a point to prove | The Verge⁠ ⁠Anthropic has to pay authors. | The Verge⁠ ⁠The cost of GPUs goes far beyond AI data centers | The Verge⁠ ⁠Is America ready for this quirky Jeep-looking EV that can park itself?⁠ ⁠The ‘G-Wagen of golf carts’ could be the ideal second car⁠ ⁠America’s cheapest new EV is smaller than a ping-pong table and tops out at 19mph⁠ ⁠Zoox’s purpose-built robotaxi is getting a refresh⁠ Subscribe to The Verge for unlimited access to theverge.com, subscriber-exclusive newsletters, and our ad-free podcast feed. We love hearing from you! Email your questions and thoughts to [e-mail] or call us at 866-VERGE11. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hello and welcome to the Vergecast, the flagship podcast of Quadrocycles. I'm your friend David Pierce, and today on the show we're going to talk about EVs. But not EVs like we normally talk about EVs. There's this new kind of burgeoning trend of these cars that are essentially golf carts that are trying to become everybody's second vehicle. Sure, own your pickup, own your giant SUV. But maybe instead of buying a second car, you might buy one of these. It's a new kind of car.

It's a new kind of electric car. and I think there's something big happening here. Virges Andy Hawkins is going to come on and talk about it. We'll get right to that. But first, here's everything else happening on the verge today. This is 90 seconds on the verge for Tuesday, July 21st, 2026. Light, the company that you might have heard of that's made minimalist phones over the last decade or so, announced its first flip phone, the light flip.

It's roughly what you think. It's a light phone in flip phone form. But I keep thinking about one thing Light's co-founder told me, that they made a flip phone specifically because people actively didn't want to be seen using a smartphone. Something big is changing in our relationship with technology, and this phone is right out in front of it. I'm going to buy one of these, and then I'm going to buy whatever insanely expensive foldable Samsung launches tomorrow, and just live in full-on phone extremes. I'm very excited about it. Meanwhile, a judge officially approved a settlement that will see Anthropic

pay $1.5 billion to a group of authors who accused it of using more than 7 million of their books to train AI models. That is a big number, obviously, but there's a bigger story here, too. There There are a lot of copyright lawsuits out there just like this one, accusing AI companies of stealing data to train LLMs. This one is a settlement, not a guilty verdict, and the specifics of the case are actually kind of messy. It's about how the books were copied and stored, not that they were used specifically in LLMs, but it still sets a high price for settlement, and it sets an important precedent

for all of those other suits and the many, many, many ones still to come. Finally, the Virges Justine Kalma has a big story out today about the real environmental cost of data centers, or even of one single GPU. I feel like it's often hard to understand how much energy, water, and other resources are being gobbled up by the AI industry, but also by our technology everywhere, including, like, the phone in our pockets. You should check it out and see what it really costs. You can see more on all of this at Theverge.com.

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So I want to get into sort of the big picture stuff going on here, but I want you to start by telling me just sort of the story of this new company called Chip Motors that you've been writing about. So let's start there. Tell me who Chip Motors is and kind of what they're up to you. Yeah, so they're a Miami-based, A startup, I was just talking to the CEO the other day. And he talked about how, you know, he's been like in the tech sector for a long time.

And he sold a camera company to like a scooter operator in Europe and had some money to play around with. So he was interested in. I know, right? And he's been very interested in the idea of like, right, right sizing American cars, you know, because it seems like everybody has to buy big trucks and SUVs for sort of every kind of use case that you can imagine. And he thinks that that's not really the right idea. And he's been sort of paying attention to this kind of like quiet underreported growth in like golf cart sales. Because if you look at like microcars specifically, like tiny little cars like microlina and fiat, those aren't doing too well in the U.S. But golf carts,

low speed, 25, cap to 25 miles per hour, are actually selling at increasingly higher and higher rates you're seeing, especially in these like warm weather markets, like in Florida and the Sunbelt, where people are using them as second cars, right? They still have like the escalates and the F-150s in their driveways, but then they use these golf carts specifically for short trips, grocery trips, dropping the kids off at school, taking them to the park, soccer practice, what have you. And so his idea was, okay, we don't have to just rely on these like ugly, you know, sort of de-featured golf carts for everything. There needs to be some sort of like middle ground between the F-150s at the golf carts. And so his idea was Chip, which is a very small

captive 25 miles per hour. Sort of looks like a Jeep Wrangler got hit by a shrink ray. It's a little bit boxier. It does. That's a really good description. It's taller than your average golf cart has like a tall windshield, can seat four, can be specked out to seat six, actually. but no doors on it and isn't sort of subject to the same regulatory requirements that most vehicles would be. So which is like this is kind of like kind of, I feel like is at the center of all. This is this sort of regulatory loophole, which we could talk about in a second. But his idea was let's give him something fun, give him something quirky. Obviously it's going to have like self-driving operations and AI integration and all of that that, you know,

everything has to have in this cursed year that we live in. But I do think that the idea gets at something that is original and interesting, which is that, you know, people are looking for second cars. There aren't actually cars. And this kind of like seems to serve that market. Yeah, there's a trend happening here that I feel like we're literally sort of at the point now where a three is a trend, right? You covered this company called Amble, which I think is based in Portugal that is building something very similar. maybe the single raddest-looking golf cart I've ever seen.

Oh, yeah. It's so sick. If the other one is like a Jeep Wrangler hit with a shrink ray, this is like a golf cart from Mad Max Fury Road. And I mean that in the best possible way. Like it rules. And then there's the Fiat Topolino, which is this another sort of tiny little adorable guy designed to be on the streets.

So what is sparking this trend? Like, why is this happening right now, do you think? I think that a lot of people are going to shop for second cars and are finding themselves unsatisfied with their options because there has been this long, gestating trend shift away from sedans. There's also, obviously, we have this affordability crisis going on in the auto market today where prices, average transaction prices have been steadily increasing pretty much on a hyper scale since like the pandemic, where now they're sitting somewhere around

like the $50,000 range for the average price of just, you know, whatever car you want to buy. There are just no cheap cars available anymore. We have, you know, many outlets have covered this phenomenon. And so I think people are going to their dealers and coming away dissatisfied with their options. They don't want to spend that much, that much money on something, which they see as a second vehicle. And so they're looking for something else. And I think these companies, some of these startups, they have different business models. They have sort of different ideas of how to different kind of customers that they're thinking about. But they are sort of all sort of centered around the idea of like,

what if you don't have to buy, you know, a giant four-door SUV or a truck? You know, what if you can have something that's smaller and fits a little bit better with the types of trips that you're trying to take? And then I think as a side of that, there's also sort of like electrification, the rise in popularity of e-bikes and sort of how all of that is kind of converging with people looking for alternate transportation methods. The idea of having this both as the, you know, drive to the grocery store car and as the one the kid can take that is, it's sort of the dumb phone version of a car. And I mean that as a compliment.

It is, it's safer. It's simpler. It's less complicated to manage and maintain. It is a thing you can feel much more comfortable turning your kid loose with. I find very exciting. We've tried this in the U.S. many times. I like going way back, I have been thinking about and a proponent of all of these various last mile solutions for forever, right? We talk all the time about how most trips are short and your giant Ford F150 is massively overkill for the two mile drives that most of us do most of the time.

And yet, especially here in the U.S., none of it has really happened. More people are biking than ever. This is your chance if you'd like to to once again extol the virtues of a cargo bike. all that is well and good and yet at least as far as I can tell we are still as much a big car economy as anything so I guess next to all of that how would you handicap the possibility of these

as a real mainstream phenomenon in the United States which is very different from a lot of the other places that we're talking about here yeah I think that there's absolutely still a long road to travel and it's very much uphill which I think a lot of these vehicles would struggle with because of their torque capabilities. But at the same time,

as long as it's a gentle hill, it'll be okay. A slope, you know, a gentle slope. But no, I do think that we're starting to see some examples of, you know, some market penetration. I think, you know, I mentioned how in Europe, teenagers are driving some of these vehicles. Here in the U.S., I think what we're starting to see, some of these Sunbelt communities, Florida and elsewhere,

you go to some of the high schools and you'll see just like golf carts. in the parking lot as opposed to traditional vehicles. Like the teenagers are driving them to and from school. They're driving them to football practice. They're driving them to the beach. 16-year-old me would have been so pumped to drive a golf cart everywhere.

Like, truly, this is such a victory of an idea for teenagers. I'm so into it. It is kind of like the solution. I mean, everyone's sort of like tearing their hair out about this like emoto problem with teenagers especially, right? They're driving these sort of like very powerful, very fast electric motorbikes.

and a lot of states are starting to crack down on that. They're getting kind of freaked out. I think the solution is these sort of like more golf cart style vehicles, these low-speed electric vehicles that can cap out at 25 miles per hour, right? They're not legal everywhere. They're only supposed to be driven on roads where the post-speed limit is 35 miles per hour. But that said, it is, I think it's starting to emerge. You can see these communities are seeing this as a solution.

But, you know, that's not everywhere, right? That's warm weather communities, beach-style communities. It's not going to be the same for a dense place like New York City or Washington, D.C., or elsewhere. But, you know, I talked to these guys from Amble and from Chip, and they're talking about, you know, like, ways that they see they could sort of kind of squeeze, starts to squeeze in. They see the phenomenon potentially spreading to more and more communities. It might not be the right fit for everywhere. But I do think that they're optimistic about the long-term prospects. Okay. What is the regulatory environment here in that front in the U.S.?

And maybe the answer is this is new enough that no one quite knows. But you have trained me over the years to understand that a big part of what is happening with EVs in general, broadly defined, is as much a regulatory problem as it is a technology problem. What is going on with these things in terms of what it will take to get them up and running in sort of a mainstream way in the United States? Well, I think that's why some of these companies are as optimistic as they are, because they see the regulatory sort of a threshold as being a lot lower than it is for your average vehicle, your average electric, even your average electric vehicle. So, you know, a lot of these vehicles, Chip and Amble and others would qualify as low-speed electric vehicles under the federal motor safety standards. And basically that means they don't have to have all the things that your traditional car has to have that. They don't have to have airbags, crumple zones, anti-lock brakes, advanced driver assist systems, backup cameras, all of these things because they have these extreme limitations, right? They're capped at 25 miles per hour. And that's basically, all they basically have to have are headlights, tail lights, a turn signal, rear view mirrors, side mirrors, parking brakes, and seat belts.

Interesting. That's it. It's not a long list. It's not. That's easy. And so I talked to the CEO from Chip Motors. He's like, it's basically two pages of regulations. So I think that that's why they think that they have maybe a little bit more breathing room in terms of who can they can market these vehicles to.

And also they can play around with the design, right? Like you see with Amble hiring designers from Apple to build this very gorgeous looking open air buggy. with like, you know, nice materials and things like that because all they have to do is sort of follow this very short list of regulation. So I think it's an interesting sort of gray area that these vehicles sort of find themselves. And that's sort of leading to some of the excitement around them. Are they also, as a result, much easier to manufacture? Again, the other thing you've trained me in is that, boy, is it hard to build cars.

And boy, do most companies fall apart before they figure out how. I would assume just looking at these things that they must be much easier to actually build and that that might be a huge boon for these companies trying to pull this off. Yeah, I think so. I think that that is the assumption. I think we still have to wait and see a lot of these companies are still very new. And for more established automakers like Fiat, which is bringing the Topolino, the $15,000 topolino back to America, you know, that they have obviously the margins to absorb any losses

that they might experience there. But yeah, I think they're going to be using contract manufacturers. Maybe they'll assemble it here in the U.S., but they'll be getting off-the-shelf parts for a lot of this kind of stuff. And I think a lot of the innovation will come through the design and how sort of they differentiate themselves from like your typical golf cart, right?

So in Chips, in Chips example, you know, it's designing something that kind of looks like a Jeep Wrangler, but also has sort of like, you know, a spacious frunk for groceries and a big LED screen on the front bump with kind of like winking, like digital eyes that could kind of give it like a kind of a quirky personality. Yeah, there's a picture on their website that it looks like it's doing sort of a half smile in a way that is, I can't tell if I would grow to hate this after about two weeks of seeing it,

or if it is genuinely the most adorable thing I've ever seen in a car. Yeah, I don't know if there's necessarily a market for that. That to me is a little bit less interesting overall than the idea of there being an actual viable market in the U.S. these vehicles. You can slap your agentic AI and your remote parking features on it. That's fine. I think that's a way to differentiate yourself from the competition. I think the real question is, do people want these vehicles? Are they going to buy them? And if so, how are they going to use them? Support for the show comes from Shopify. Landing on a good idea for a business is basically catching lightning in a bottle. What are the odds that will happen more than once? You have to jump on

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may slow when network is busy. See terms. So if this works, it seems like there is a huge set of stuff you could in theory do along these same lines, right? I think back to the early days of self-driving when the question was, are we going to end up completely redesigning the car as a result? And you look at like a Zooks, which invented a very different looking thing to carry you around based fully on self-driving. I think in general, self-driving is probably too new and we just haven't pushed all the way down that road. But it strikes me as this being another huge possibility for that, that if indeed these folks are right, that there is space here for something that is deliberately slower, that is substantially simpler and smaller, that this might be another chance to kind of

reinvent the idea of what these are supposed to be. Is your sense that these companies are thinking about that? I mean, all of these, like you said, everybody calls them golf carts because they functionally look like golf carts. Do you think that's where this lands, or is there some potential for weirdness and innovation here? I'm hopeful that there's potential for weirdness and of any should because that's that's our that's where the verge operates right that's that's true that's that's where we that's where we live um and i i i do think that there is going to need to be some sort of like psychological shift in the american mindset towards how they shop for cars and what they buy and i think that which car companies have been trying to make happen for decades and with very little

success very little success exactly and we're starting to see that now with sort of the a lot of the reversals that we're seeing in the electric vehicle market that said there is still an electric vehicle market. It still exists. People are still buying these cars. Tesla is having a little bit of a resurgence. And, you know, I think things are starting to stabilize in that market. That said, I do think that we need to sort of wrap our heads around why it is we've allowed the auto industry to convince us for so long that we need an F-150 just to go to the grocery store for like five bags of groceries, right? It's not, it's not necessary when you live in the suburbs to have this giant hulking SUV that doesn't even, or a truck that doesn't even really fit in your grocery.

garage that was built in maybe like the 1950s. So it is kind of like this idea of like right sizing our transportation needs. And I think that it's going to be a tall ask. I just, you know, we're such a big country. We're so spread out. It's much different value proposition that it is in Europe, which is denser and closer together. The cities and the communities are much closer together. And we just have all of this wide open space. So there is going to always be people who want big vehicles that can take them long distances. The question is, I think in that second vehicle market is where I think you're going to start to see a lot of this weirdness and innovation.

Is it an e-bike? Is it a quadrucycle? Is it a golf cart? Or is it just another smaller, you know, Toyota, you know, Rav4 or Honda CRV or whatever? Right. So I think that's going to be sort of the challenge, right? They're not going to be maybe necessarily competing against your escalades and your 15s.

they're going to be competing against your Kia's and your Hyundai's and your sort of more compact vehicles that are kind of serving, have been traditionally serving those needs and whether or not people are going to be willing to downsize from those compact vehicles. Yeah, I have to say that actually makes me feel slightly more optimistic about these things chances. Because again, what we've learned over and over is that you will not unseat the giant pickup trucks. They will get ever more giant. They will get ever more expensive. And they will keep selling. And that is that is just where we are. But it does seem like everything else is kind of getable at this point.

Like the idea of building the sort of cheap sedan seems to just get harder and harder, especially in an EV world when people have range anxiety and are worried about what these things cost. And so if you can come in and say, well, we have, and this is to some extent the same pitch for the slate truck, right? Yeah, exactly. We do less, but you don't need a car that does everything. Like that feels like when you're coming in as sort of the second complementary. vehicle, an actually really compelling case to be like, you have a car that does all this other stuff. We are going to be really perfectly tuned to a much smaller set of things. And by the way, we cost

one third of what that other one costs. And it just feels like maybe that space is more open than we realize. I have no idea how good a business that space is, right? That has tended to be lower margin and a very different kind of customer than a lot of these other car companies are looking for. But it does seem like the logic of that market has been the same for a very long time. And no one has cracked it in some time. And especially with EVs, especially if you can have, you can solve people's range anxiety by saying, look, you're only going to take this thing 25 miles an hour and you're only going to drive it a few miles at a time. So the idea of running out of power in the middle of a highway in Idaho is non-existent because it's not going to happen. Yeah.

So I don't know. There's something about that that seems right to me. But that same thing has felt right to me for a very long time and no one has quite cracked it yet. So I'm both optimistic and pessimistic. And something I brought up to the CEO of Chip was that, you know, it's not like there aren't any subcompact cars. We have Honda Fits. We have Nissan Versus. We have, you know, mini-cupers and what have you.

And they can drive in the highway, right? They can go over 25 miles per hour. And his response was that, you know, a lot of these are European spec cars, you know, and they're sort of made for European driving, and maybe they found like a market here in the U.S., but this is a car that we're building for the U.S. specifically. And what he cited was, I thought, it was really interesting was that there are these communities in Florida

and elsewhere that have started to build infrastructure for these cars, right? There are golf cart, specific roads that connect schools and communities and parks and things like that, that are kind of bike lanes and also used by some of these low-speed vehicles as well. the fact that there's that doesn't exist nationwide right these are sort of very highly specific to some of these warm weather communities and you're not really seeing that same kind of diversity and infrastructure in a lot of these other communities across the country which I think is maybe going to be some of the limitations that some of these companies run into as well if we want to

see more micro you know sort of like form factors we're also going to need to sort of shrink down our expectations around our roads and our infrastructure as well. Totally. Do you think these companies are also thinking about a robotaxy or even just ride sharing future here? I mean, you talk about these golf cart communities. You can pretty easily imagine the world in which these become useful, simple, relatively low-cost ways to move people around.

And again, a lot of the last mile things people talk about are things like college campuses and these relatively dense, relatively contained communities. these things strike me as perfect for those. Is that part of the plan here? Yeah. So the CHIP CEO spoke specifically about this. He's like, as autonomy gets better and better and more and more people are going to be relying

on shared autonomous vehicles, whether they're robo taxis or shuttles or whatever it is, he can see this as being something that graduates from being your second vehicle to perhaps your primary vehicle in the only one that you actually own. because it does, you know, maybe fit more in the use cases that they see it where you're taking your kids to school and all this kind of stuff. You don't want to necessarily have to pay a subscription or what have you or a fare for robo taxis. But then, you know, maybe when you get home, you can summon the robo taxi to take you to work or what have you.

So I do think that they're trying. And he's trying to factor that into the actual feature technology that is being embedded in this car. Right now it's a teleoperating. remote assistance system where they have remote operators who will park the car for you. I haven't really seen that work at scale. So that's something I'm a little bit more skeptical about than some of the other ideas that he's proposing. But he says that eventually they'll have some sort of autonomy feature, level four, fully driverless,

that you can just sum of the car to you when you want it, send it to go park itself. It'll drive you to where you need to go. And because, again, you're dealing with something that is more lower speed and has these sort of guard rails, it becomes sort of a very much, maybe a better proposition for autonomy, because you don't have to worry about going on the highway. You don't have to worry about going 70 miles per hour. And when speed is not sort of like the end of everything, then it sort of opens you up to sort of some more technological innovation, I think. This all sounds so good, Andy. This is the thing. Okay, before I let you go here, I need you to accurately calibrate

my enthusiasm here because I look at something like the chip or like the Amble one and it actually fits perfectly into my day-to-day life, right? We have a Hyundai SUV for when we need to go visit family or when we want to go far. But most of my driving most of the time is a mile and a half to my son's daycare and then six blocks to my other son's preschool and then about a mile to the coffee shop and then home. And that's, I do that circle twice a day, every day all week. And that, plus the grocery store accounts for most of my driving that isn't, you know, it's trips like that. I have always struggled with the e-bike thing because that's a little tricky, especially when, when I have kids, like, just how do I get my kids on there to take them to take them to be in

free school? The weather being what it is. The weather is what it is. My wife gets very nervous about biking around cars, all these things. This seems perfect. And I'm like, I would, I would, next time we need a second car, maybe I ditch the hybrid sedan that we have and buy a golf cart, and that becomes the future. So I need you to tell me right now whether I should genuinely earnestly get my hopes up about this being a thing, or if I need to pull back a little bit. I think that the only limitations I can see are, you know, sort of the road diversity in your community, right? Like, you're going to be on roads, it sounds like that potentially are 40, miles per hour roads or 50 mile per hour roads.

If you can- 50s, I think there is a 40 between here and there. And so I mean like if it's exclusively all 35 miles per hour, I do think it is about like this psychological barrier that we all have. We're like, yeah, you live in, it's a 25 mile per hour road, but you're really going 30 or it's a 35 mile per hour road, but you're really going 40. It's this idea that like we're always pushing the barrier a little bit, right? And I do think that that is, it's not just a psychological thing.

I think it's also a market limitation as well. So I think if we can break free of these mental bonds that we have around speed and quickness and getting to where we go as fast as possible all the time and just maybe enjoy the ride a little bit more, then I think the world opens wide open. From your mouth to the ears of everyone who drives near me all the time. I'll take it. It's always other drivers, right, David? Well, yeah, I go just a perfectly rational speed all the time.

I'm imagining myself at 25 miles an hour on our road just causing a ruckus every single morning. I think I'm ready for that. It's going to be great. Let's do it. All right, Andy, good to see you, buddy. Thanks for being here. Same here, man.

Thank you. All right, that's it for the show. Thank you to Andy for being here. And thank you, as always, for watching and listening. If you have thoughts, questions, feelings, if you see one of these on the street, take a picture of it, send it to me. Vergecast at theverge.com is the email.

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