[tuccillo]

My wife and I are new residents and are looking for a golf cart. We are down in the Lake Deaton area. We will play a lot of golf. I don't see us taking it to Spanish Springs all that often but Sumter Landing is certainly somewhere we would go.

I have talked to a few Golf Cart stores and there seems to be a very strong bias towards gas carts with the rational that electrics have a limited range and need the battery packs replaced every year and a half. I am trying to separate out fact from fiction. It seems to me that that range for a new 48v battery pack is about 40 miles assuming 80% discharge and a 5 year lifetime is not all that unusual (not sure what the range is typically reduced by after 5 years). I am mechanically inclined so the battery pack would get the needed attention if we went electric.

Can someone explain why there is such a bias towards gas carts (perhaps the commission plans favour pushing gas)? I am being short sighted by even considering electric? Thanks