An estimate for fuel costs (electricity for electric carts and gasoline for gas carts) is about 2 cents per mile for electric carts and about 5 cents per mile for gas carts. Your mileage may vary depending on the exact cart you have.
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Originally Posted by Dr Winston O Boogie jr
I have Ranger batteries in my 2002 Club Car and I can get about 60 miles on a charge. Yes, that is more limiting than gas, but I don't think I've ever gone 60 miles in my cart in the six years that I've lived here.
I did have a problem with some of the batteries which had to be replaced. It was kind of a pain in the butt, but now I have a mix of older and newer batteries. I've been replacing one battery approximately every year at a cost of about $200. That doesn't seem too bad to me as I would think that I would spend more than that on gas in a year. The cost of electricity is hardly noticeable.
Electric carts have fewer moving parts so less can go wrong. If you plan on keeping a cart for a long time, maintenance on an electric cart will be lower over the years.
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