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Originally Posted by fred53
The biggest downsides to electric carts: short distance vs. gas/slower up hills/replacing batteries every so often runs into the $100's of dollars. The quietness of electric is great...the newer gas carts(yamaha for sure/not sure about Par Cars or others)are much quieter.
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I had a 2017 Yamaha Quiet Tech as a loaner when I had the annual service done on my 2016 Yamaha electric. I had a strong odor of gas in my garage after parking the gas cart. I don't have those air vents in my garage so maybe that is why the odor of gas did not dissipate.
Driving the loaner cart, I found it has a very slow sluggish acceleration vs the very rapid acceleration in my electric cart. I felt as though I was driving a Fred Flintstone vehicle in the 2017 Quiet Tech. It is just too sluggish of a start for me. My sister also has a 2017 Yamaha Quiet Tech and it accelerates the same way as my loaner.
As far as an electric cart going slower up hills; my electric Yamaha has an AC motor so it takes the hills just fine. I see maybe a .2 mph slow down going up hill. That isn't noticeable at all.
I don't play golf so I do understand the rationale for owning a gas cart now that The Villages is expanding. To be honest, if I had to travel really far to get from one end of The Villages to the other end, I would gladly take the car. But...as I said, I don't play golf.