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Low-speed vehicles: Coming soon to a development near you?
There is an alternative form of transportation now available for residents of Predator Ridge, a golf resort community in Vernon, B.C., thanks to a local firm called Simolo Customs Ltd.
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The company, which operates as SC Carts, builds and designs Low-Speed Vehicles, otherwise known as LSVs. Unlike a golf cart, an LSV is “street legal,” which means it can be driven on residential streets with a speed limit of 50 km/h or below, is electrically powered and reaches a maximum speed limit of 40 km/h.
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Grand Bend, start your engines slowly.
Lambton Shores has become one of the first municipalities in Canada to approve the use of low-speed vehicles on its roads, an oddly shaped but environmentally friendly way to get around town.
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The Lake Huron community, which includes Grand Bend, has passed a bylaw allowing for the slow-moving vehicles small, electric rides that run a maximum speed of 40 kilometres/hour to be driven on area roads with a speed limit of 50 km/h or less.
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Forget all the noise (or silence) about a Porsche Taycan Turbo S that goes from zero to 100 km/h in 2.6 seconds; what we really need, according to two retired Grand Bend, Ontario businessmen Don Liley and Dave Marr, is more LSVs – that’s low speed vehicles, for the uninitiated. The electric carts are manufactured in British Columbia, and the duo decided their community would be a perfect playground for the all-electric buggies –
if they could get municipal approval. Well, mission accomplished: their business got the go-ahead from local bylaw on April 13.
In keeping with the parameters of the pilot project introduced by the province of Ontario in July of 2017, “LSVs are electric, environmentally friendly and efficient and must meet all the requirements of the LSV pilot. LSV’s travel at a speed up to 40 KPH and can only be driven on roads and highways with a maximum speed limit of up to 50 KPH. The LSV must be licensed, insured and driven by a licensed dri
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Grand Bend, start your engines slowly.
Lambton Shores has become one of the first municipalities in Canada to approve the use of low-speed vehicles on its roads, an oddly shaped but environmentally friendly way to get around town.
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Try refreshing your browser, or Let s ride (slowly): Grand Bend area gives green light to low-speed vehicles Back to video
The Lake Huron community, which includes Grand Bend, has passed a bylaw allowing for the slow-moving vehicles small, electric rides that run a maximum speed of 40 kilometres/hour to be driven on area roads with a speed limit of 50 km/h or less.