[JMintzer]

Originally Posted by jimjamuser

I can give you more than opinions and preferences. Sit outside near a street that has a fairly high amount of traffic. Eventually, an older (5 years or more) golf car will go by and after they are about 5 car lengths away - you will begin to almost get nauseated by the smell of unburned gasoline and other exhaust pollutants. Many, many times I have been outside working in my front yard and had to inhale that crap.

......Clean air is considered a right by many Americans, but here in the Villages, you don't get that unless you live on a cul-de-sac or a low-trafficked street. Also, besides NOISE, the professional grass massagers use gas-polluting equipment including the worst of them all --------2 stroke edgers.
........Also, more than opinions and preferences ......is the fact that E-golf carts start out with instant torque, which is probably more important to E-vehicles like Tesla. Electric golf carts have a lower center of gravity due to the low placement of the batteries - this gives faster acceleration, quicker deceleration, and better cornering than the equivalent gas carts with their higher center of gravity. The same thing applies to Electric cars and trucks, which explains why they are superior and why in Europe 20% of new car sales are electric. In the US it is 8%, so basically we are less sophisticated than Europe. But, the US % is rising.

No, we have much farther to go... EVs are great in small urban settings (like much of Europe). The fail when long distances must be traveled...