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Originally Posted by Jazuela
We have a gas cart. I think the OP is missing one variable in the equation. How many trips do you take per day? That 20-minute ride will be fine. But what happens when you go home, and need to go out again? You haven't had time for your car to recharge, and you're about to take another possible 20-minute ride.
So you do that, come home, your cart is pretty thirsty and you plug it in.
20 minutes later, you realize you're out of milk.
You can get in the car, run the AC and waste 20MPG for a 2-mile drive to Publix, or you can wait a couple hours til your cart is fully charged again because you KNOW as soon as you get home, you'll get a phone call from the pharmacy telling you that your prescription is ready to pick up. And then an hour later it's time for your weekly dinner date at the other Town Square.
Spending most of your day being concerned about whether or not you have enough juice to get you through the entire day's worth of trips - is not the idea of paradise to me.
On the other hand!
If everything I needed was within a 1 or 2-mile range, I could easily use the cart all day on a single charge and then recharge overnight.
On the other hand!
Power outages = no recharge = no golf cart.
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You make a very valid point, and that and the maintenance "hassles" with lead acid batteries are why I was (am?) considering gas.
BUT, and there is always a but, the new Lithium batteries have a very fast charge rate, and you can "top them off" unlike lead acid. So, you can come home with say 50% charge left, plug in and 30 minutes later go out with maybe 80% charge (30 to 40 miles0, come back and plug in and 2 hours later and you definitely have a full charge again (50 to 70 miles).
So, far less anxiety - maybe.