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Originally Posted by bbatts
What about the GEM. Looks good, but I don't see very many around TV.
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I see quite a few of them around TV and most have For Sale sings on them.
I looked into buying one about a year ago. I test drove one and they are very fast and remarkably smooth riding. They have two speeds. One is the energy saving mode where the cart will go about 20mph or so and the other is the fast mode which brings it up to 25mph.
They have a 72 volt system. I forget what the battery configuration is.
The reasons that I didn't buy one are many. #1, the range is 25 miles. They will not go any further than that. #2, they are very expensive and I couldn't see spending $15,000 to go 25 miles per day. #3, according to Florida law, they must be registered and insured as they come under the category of a Low Speed Vehicle and not a golf cart. They must also have seat belts and all of the other safety equipment that a car has including a solid windshield that cannot be opened. I love to ride with the top half of my windshield down.
The cost of registering and insuring is somewhere in the order of $2,000 the first years. It goes down a bit after the first year.
Basically, I want a golf cart, not another car.