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Old 10-23-2015, 08:45 AM
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Street legal golf carts were created because of the LSV statutes. LSV came into being to promote clean energy electric vehicles. Notice that there are no gasoline powered street legal golf carts. A few years ago, the federal government was basically paying for the price of these LSVs through alternative energy rebates. After some bad publicity, the feds changed the rebate program to a much smaller/reasonable rebate (10% of purchase price, I think). Now, I think, the rebate excludes "golf carts". But, the LSV statutes are still on the books, so manufacturers are still building them.
But there are gas powered street legal carts. Or maybe I have the semantics wrong.
If there is a difference in an LSV and a gas powered street legal cart?