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Originally Posted by red tail
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This is a great article. In a nutshell, both electric and gas require maintenance.
Maintenance - Gas - need oil changes and replacement parts such as spark plugs, starter belts and so on, and fuel. Electric - need charging, and once a month or so fill the batteries with water. At some point a few years down the road, replace the batteries. All carts need tire pressure checked. As far as carts dying along the roadside, all carts will do that if you don't gas them up or recharge the battery sufficiently.
Noise - the electric cart is very quiet. You can drive along and have a pleasant conversation. Gas carts - the newer ones are better than the older ones, but electric are still quieter. If you do a lot of driving and noise is important to you, avoid gas cart.
We don't use our cart a lot for general driving, pretty much just golf, so we have an electric cart because it is quieter, and we find plugging it in to recharge it is more convenient than having to deal with filling up a cart with gas. But that is personal preference. A lot of people have gas carts and seem to like them. I personally hate the smell of the carts and the noise, but to each his/her own.