EV Startup Reveals $15,000 25-MPH Car That You'll Never Have To Park Chip Motors is a new EV startup betting that Americans are willing to go smaller—and pay up to have someone else do the parking. Go to any European city and you’ll find tiny city cars jittering over cobblestones and dodging tourists. Japan is positively teeming with adorable “kei” versions of everything from off-road SUVs to box trucks. Across the globe, practical little cars are everywhere. But you’d never know that looking at our Escalade- and F-150-filled roads. A Miami-based startup called Chip Motors has spent the last few years working on a small, low-speed electric vehicle that it’s betting even SUV-obsessed Americans will go for. On Wednesday, it emerged from stealth and opened up preorders for its first product, a boxy, oddball affair with a tall windshield, no doors, a cheery LED smile on its face, and a bold promise to make driving optional. It reads like a cross between a golf cart and a Jeep Wrangler—or maybe a VW Thing—and that speaks to the market Chip is trying to conquer. All over the country, in private communities but also in warm climates, people are hitting the beach and the grocery store in golf carts, Jameson Detweiler, Chip’s cofounder told InsideEVs. Chip Motors “During the pandemic, something happened. The golf carts escaped the golf communities, and were adopted widely and rapidly by families in markets where you could have the doors off basically year round, or in seasonal markets too,” he said. “And it just turns out a lot of people are doing this.” Indeed, market research and reporting indicates that golf cart sales are on the rise, including from people who want to bop around town alongside fully grown cars. That’s possible due to a section of