I offered him my customs broker’s contact info (I have a problem and it’s called “buying too much weird stuff from overseas”) and I asked him to keep me updated about how the process went. He originally told me several months ago that he planned to buy one and have it sent to the US. That’s actually pretty close to what Electrek reader Kyle Day found when he set out to order his own electric Jeep. It’s also much cheaper than golf carts, which cost around $7,000 in the US.Īmazingly, this mini-Jeep is quite affordably priced at a mere $1,280.īut based on my conversations earlier this year with the Chinese factory, the final price shipped to a US port seemed to put it closer to $1,700.
It’s more closely comparable to a golf cart in size and power, yet reaches a decent speed of 25 mph (40 km/h). This isn’t some electric Powerwheels toy – it can fit a couple of adults shoulder to shoulder. But it turns out that I’m not the only one who has been bitten by the weird Alibaba EV bug – as an Electrek reader shared with us his experience purchasing the $1,700 electric mini-Jeep I found earlier this year.
I’ve wanted to purchase a lot of these myself, and I even did pull the trigger on an electric pickup truck recently. Each week I go spelunking into the caverns of the Alibaba electric vehicle catalog and find something awesome, weird, and usually surprisingly low-cost to share with the world. If you haven’t already had the pleasure of discovering it, I write a fun column called the Awesomely Weird Alibaba Electric Vehicle of the Week.