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Old 10-04-2024, 05:25 AM
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Huh? Yamaha makes electric carts with lithium-ion batteries. For use in The Villages, I believe they should put a larger battery in them. For golf courses, the battery size is fine since they will at most be used for 2 rounds of golf before charging.

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Originally Posted by Road-Runner View Post
I asked The Villages Golf Cart about why no Yamaha Lithium carts? They said that Yamaha knows they own the gas cart market and feel that a Yamaha Lithium cart would only compete / cut into their gas cart sales. Sounded like a plausible answer to me.

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