{"id":32733,"date":"2022-10-01T07:20:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T11:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=32733"},"modified":"2022-10-01T07:20:00","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T11:20:00","slug":"weird-alibaba-electric-ice-cream-truck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=32733","title":{"rendered":"Weird Alibaba: A $5,000 electric ice cream truck that you’ll want to drive everyday"},"content":{"rendered":"

Remember the good ol\u2019 days of hearing the ice cream truck\u2019s jingle coming down the street and running outside with a fistful of quarters to grab your favorite tasty treat? <\/p>\n

Yea, me neither, as I\u2019m in my early 30\u2019s and that stuff was mostly phased out by the time we were kids. Why pay a stranger in a questionably shady truck when your mom can just pick up ice pops at Krogers?<\/p>\n

But that doesn\u2019t mean I can\u2019t lay on the fake nostalgia for a bygone era that had officially gone by before I came around.<\/p>\n

And the best way to relive the romantic ice cream truck period yourself is to step right up and own your very own ice cream truck. Err, well, ice cream trike<\/em>. This confectionary cart is a three-wheeler. A tasty treat tuk-tuk, if you will.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a vehicle so weird and awesome that it has rightfully earned this week\u2019s title of Awesomely Weird Alibaba Electric Vehicle of the<\/a> Week.<\/p>\n

And it\u2019s electric, so that\u2019s kind of a steep departure from the original as well. Though I imagine that can only be an improvement. I\u2019ve never heard of someone who enjoyed the taste of exhaust mixed in with their Mr. Sprinkles.<\/p>\n

And with the price of gas these days, you could end up blowing your whole cone budget just on gas stops, so electric definitely seems like the way to go.<\/p>\n

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The cool thing about this ice cream trike too is that it\u2019s basically a transformer. <\/p>\n

The ice cream tent in back pops up when you\u2019re parked and want to start slinging your frozen delights. But when it\u2019s time to get back on the highway (or let\u2019s face it, probably the sidewalk), the rear end closes back down for supreme aerodynamic performance.<\/p>\n

And with a peppy 4,000W motor, you better believe that aerodynamics are going to come into play. The last thing you want is a drippy cone because you didn\u2019t plan for wind resistance.<\/p>\n

Ok fine, so it\u2019s not terribly fast or powerful. But it could smoke some of other silly little EVs we\u2019ve featured here before.<\/a><\/p>\n

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And while this is certainly not a family car, that doesn\u2019t mean you can\u2019t make use of it for more than one purpose.<\/p>\n

Just think of how cool it would be (or mortifying) for you kid to get dropped off at school in an ice cream trike.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ve even got your own reward structure built right into the vehicle. \u201cThanks for picking me up from school, Dad. Can I have some ice cream?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSorry, Junior. Ice cream is for kids that get straight A\u2019s.\u201d<\/p>\n

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At a price of $6,600<\/a> (or a mere $5,800 if you buy 10 ice cream trucks), this isn\u2019t exactly an impulse purchase.<\/p>\n

And keep in mind that you\u2019ll likely have several<\/em> thousand more dollars in shipping costs, customs fees, port fees and of course ice cream taxes.<\/p>\n

But if you\u2019ve been looking for a career change, a chance to make your own hours and a vehicle with a perpetually sticky floor, then you could do a heck of a lot worse than this awesome electric ice cream trike.<\/p>\n

It may not be the most practical vehicle I\u2019ve ever found on the internet, but it\u2019s certainly one of the most charming!<\/p>\n

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