The price of oil changes depends on whether you do it yourself. In which case, the cost is about $4 per oil change for my gas cart. Regarding the cost of "electric" fuel, my lithium-ion electric cart costs, at the electrical outlet during recharging, about 5 miles per kWh or about 2.5 cents per mile. My gas cart get 50 miles per gallon or about 7 cents per mile. Gas carts do have some additional "maintenance" items such as a new battery about every 5 years and maybe some belt replacements but these, along with the oil changes, are only about 10% of the fuel charges over 75,000 miles. I put the operating cost of my electric cart at about 1/3 of the operating cost of my gas cart or a 75,000 miles savings of about $4000. We will probably replace the 10 year old gas cart with another electric cart within the next couple of years.
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Originally Posted by MorTech
Lithium batteries have a calendar life of maybe 15 years usually because of electrolyte and lattice breakdown...They won't last 39 years, yet.
Driving 5000 miles a year on a cart with ~80 mile range (210ah Star Sirius/Atlas): After 15 years and 75,000 miles you will use about 1000 charge cycles. The degradation on a LFP battery might be 10% after 1000 cycles so you will only be getting 72 miles per charge.
75,000 miles / 15 years on a gas cart would be 60 oil changes at $60 dollars or $3600. Just that one expense pays for a replacement lithium battery. Lithium carts cost one cent per mile in fuel - gas cart 10 cents per mile in fuel - $750 electric - $7500 gas. $6,750 saved.
Are you starting to see the value?
No gas cart ruckus, smell, and laughably awful throttle response. No gas cart maintenance and refueling inconvenience/expense.
The replacement battery 15 years from now will probably be Sodium Ion and cost $1500 in todays dollars.
To fill your automobile with gas might cost $50...Your electric golf cart charging will cost $50 per YEAR  |