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Old 12-26-2020, 08:07 AM
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If your battery gauge dropped below half you were running on fumes. With lead acid batteries the gauge is not linear. You might have had 2-3 miles left.

I installed a Roypow lithium battery in my 2011 EZGO and get 65-70 miles on a tank. Battery gauge is linear. Power cost is a penny a mile. You can top it off every day without degrading your battery.
Agree, Lithium batteries will never go completely dead to zero volts. if the do they won’t charge. Example my EGO 56v batteries go dead at 41V, won’t go no lower, the charger charges them back up to 56V, they get hot and have to be ventilated.