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Originally Posted by dewilson58
If you are wondering gas vs. electric...........50 miles is not the magic number.
Battery life diminishes over time.
The 50 mile life (if there is one) will NOT last long.
Sometime you can not rely on the meter for accuracy.
60% of battery life can disappear in the last 10% of the time.
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I think there are two ways to approach this question:
1 The Cart
2 The Body
For the Cart (2 possibilities – gas or electric):
Gas Cart: Absolutely capable of being driven all day long, as long as you have enough gas. If you assume that the cart is doing the ‘legal maximum speed’ of 20mph and being driven for 24 hours, you’d travel 480 miles. You’d need a gas fill-up at half way (240 miles) and your 2nd tank would be almost empty at the end of the 480 miles. If you have more than 1 person in the cart, you may have to fill the gas tank more than once. But the cart is capable. I should say that the cart is “capable – maybe”. I don’t know if a golf cart is designed/engineered to be driven for that many hours at one time!
Electric Cart: Might be capable of driving 50 miles or more in one day. It all depends on the type of batteries, number of batteries, capacity of batteries, and age of batteries. From what I’ve researched, a ‘big’ set of Lithium batteries (such as sold in the E-Z-GO Freedom RXV Elite 4.2) might provide as much as a 100 mile range (about 5 hours of travel). I suppose it also depends on how many people are in the cart. More people will reduce the range……don’t know by how much.
For the Body:
The cart may be able to go hundreds of miles in a day (gas) or up to 100+ miles in a day (electric). But that’s just the machine. The real question is, what can a human body handle? Many people have mentioned how important good quality seats are for enjoying your driving time. Also, radial tires and proper inflation can help. But your own physical condition is the limiting factor. Sore backs, sore kidneys, poor circulation, mental exhaustion will most likely limit your driving time much sooner than the mechanical capability of the golf cart will.
At least, that's my spin on it!