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Old 02-06-2024, 07:09 AM
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Originally Posted by Steve View Post
Electric carts: Count on replacing the batteries every couple of years. That's about an $800+ expense right there. Plus, you want to drive to the North end of the Villages from the South end? At some point as your batteries age they will run down before you get home. When your batteries do run down you need to recharge them for about 12 hours before you're at full strength again.

Gas carts: My 1997 Yamaha is still going strong, gets 42 mpg giving me a range of about 200 miles. If I get low on gas I pull into a gas station and fill up and I'm good for another 200 miles. I do an annual maintenance by a local golf cart outfit for $85 and I'm good for another year.

I had electric to start with, but The Villages has outgrown electric carts.
More outdated information which only applies to the obsolete lead-acid batteries. Even if this was current information, the dramatically lower operating cost of electric carts pay for the replacement battery cost.