[Dr Winston O Boogie jr]

I haven't owned a gas cart personally, but I have had to manage a fleet of them. I can tell you that golf cart company information is that gas carts require more maintenance and repairs than do electric carts. Gas carts have far more moving parts and are much more complicated.

Having said that, there is not advantage over new electric carts over new gas carts except that gas carts will have a very slightly higher operating expense. You wan't have the problems with rings and other motor parts in the first five years.

Now for personal use, this might not be a major factor, but when you have a fleet of 50 carts, a golf course will pay for a lot more hours over a year filling the carts with gas at least once a week. It will spend less money on payroll to have someone fill the batteries of an electric once or twice a month.

This is major factor why most golf courses choose electric versus gas. This is why electrics are chosen by golf courses by about ten to one.

Yamaha likes to say how 80% of all carts sold in the Villages are gas, but I don't see that. If anything the ration that I see driving around is about 50/50 at best. But Yamaha specializes in gas carts and they have three locations either in or very close to the Town Squares and they are called The Villages Golf Carts. What they don't tell you is that 90% of all carts sold nationally are electric.

Now, Like I say there could be a big difference in owning one golf cart for personal use than having a fleet of 50 for rentals on the golf course. The difference in overall operating costs and repairs is much more significant when multiplied by 50.