Like most everything, endless debate. Realize, people all people will be prejudiced by the choice they have made. To do other than that, with anything, is to have to admit first of all that the choice you made was wrong.
We have an eight year old Yamaha EFI cart. We use it quite a bit and are here full time.
We have not had any problems with the EFI system. A friend with the carb, purchased at the same time has needed to have the carb replaced. Is that the fault of either system?
Probably not. He leaves his cart in his garage and takes off for weeks at a time on vacation from our permanent Villages vacation. I am sure of one thing, replacing the carb is far less expensive than a rebuild or replace of the EFI system.
Fuel economy? We use like 6 gal a month. Not sure of the exact number but if the carb
used the same would burn 7 a month does it really matter? Cleaner? Perhaps. A gas powered golf cart unlike a car, does not idle. The engine stops and restarts every time you stop for a stop sign, a branch etc etc etc. An engine is most dirty, smell, pollution etc when it starts, getting up to normal running temperature. The fuel injection is cleaner.
Cost? I still do not understand why golf carts are so expensive compared to say a large riding mower or an ATV. I think part of it is the assumption that if you can pay the cost of playing golf, a rich man's game, you can pay up for a toy car called a golf cart. It is a single cylinder air cooled engine, with a single speed drive.
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