[Joecooool418]

Originally Posted by Grill Meister

Educate me, please. What brand golf carts are manufactured and you see being driven around TV. My research developed on these:

Top Chinese golf cart brands include Evolution EV, Icon EV, HDK, Lvtong, and Borcart, which offer feature-rich electric low-speed vehicles at competitive price points.

I have never seen nor heard of these brands.

Every cart that isn't Yamaha, Club Car, or EZGO is Chinese.

Yes, even those you see marketed as "designed" and/or "assembled" in the USA - CHINESE.

These companies have been illegally subsidized by the Chinese government with the specific intent of undercutting US manufacturers and driving them out of business. Read the link in the first post.

What makes me want to puke is seeing all these Chinese carts running around the villages - plastered with American flags. You have got to be kidding me....

[DAVES]

The problem is actually a good one. Freedom to choose and freedom of information. At one time Ford controlled the American auto market. The model T was way lower priced than the competition. and you could have any color you wanted so long as it was black.

[LeRoySmith]

Originally Posted by Joecooool418

Every cart that isn't Yamaha, Club Car, or EZGO is Chinese.

Yes, even those you see marketed as "designed" and/or "assembled" in the USA - CHINESE.

These companies have been illegally subsidized by the Chinese government with the specific intent of undercutting US manufacturers and driving them out of business. Read the link in the first post.

What makes me want to puke is seeing all these Chinese carts running around the villages - plastered with American flags. You have got to be kidding me....

I own hundreds, if not thousands, of items that weren't made in America. You do too. That's what participating in a global economy means. Buying or owning a foreign-made product doesn't diminish someone's national pride, nor does displaying an American flag on that product make them hypocritical.
If anything, calling someone hypocritical for putting an American flag on a foreign-made golf cart while simultaneously enjoying products manufactured all over the world is a bit ironic. National pride and buying American whenever possible aren't mutually exclusive with participating in the global economy.

I love my country and will defend it to the death, I drive a Chinese golf cart assembled in Atlanta. Most of the vehicles and all of my houses have an American flag on them.

Try to have a good day.

[charles_2000]

Originally Posted by Super Cindy

Would like to see this cart. What size Lithium did you put in it?

Two - 100AH Lithium Batteries that are connect in parallel. (They are designed to be connected together)

[CrosbyStills]

Originally Posted by Joecooool418

Every cart that isn't Yamaha, Club Car, or EZGO is Chinese.

Yes, even those you see marketed as "designed" and/or "assembled" in the USA - CHINESE.

These companies have been illegally subsidized by the Chinese government with the specific intent of undercutting US manufacturers and driving them out of business. Read the link in the first post.

What makes me want to puke is seeing all these Chinese carts running around the villages - plastered with American flags. You have got to be kidding me....

I believe MadJaxx and Honor are both American made golf carts in addition to the Big Three.

[charles_2000]

Originally Posted by Super Cindy

Would like to see this cart. What size Lithium did you put in it?

Two 100AH Lithium batteries are made to be paralleled together.

[Joecooool418]

Originally Posted by CrosbyStills

I believe MadJaxx and Honor are both American made golf carts in addition to the Big Three.

MadJax (Nivel) is almost all Chinese. It uses parts from Jiaxing Learoad, Shenzhen Aoxiang, and Danyang Lanqi.

Honor uses Chinese bodies, frames, motors and electronics. They source their body parts from Wuxi Jinsun Parts Co. Limited and Shenzhen Aoxiang Industrial Develop among others. They assemble them and use some extra parts they make in house. You can see the same Chinese bodies on other carts like the ones from Sierra LSV.

https://honorlsv.com/luxe-gallery/

Explore Models | Sierra LSV 2026

Shenzhen Aoxiang Industrial Development Co., Ltd., a Chinese supplier to both MadJax and Honor, is explicitly named in the August 12, 2025 U.S. antidumping order. They got hit with a 333.14% rate.

[TheVillageGlossator]

Just a reality check on the “Big Three.”

Did you know that Club Car, while manufacturing/assembling most of its vehicles in Augusta Georgia, relies on a remarkably international supply chain? Its documented sourcing includes motors, brakes and clutches from China; drive axles from Japan; transaxles from Singapore; lithium-ion components from South Korea; rear shocks from Vietnam; and other components from Germany, Turkey, India, the U.K., Egypt and Sri Lanka.

Did you know that E-Z-GO, while substantially manufacturing its carts also in Augusta Georgia, relies on major components manufactured overseas? Its supply chain includes engines from Taiwan, GPS systems from Malaysia, EV batteries from Vietnam and conventional batteries from Mexico, along with various Chinese-made parts and accessories. At the same time, E-Z-GO manufactures important components in Georgia, including frames, brake drums and steering components.

And then there’s Yamaha.
Here’s the irony: a Japanese conglomerate may have the strongest claim to being the most thoroughly American-made of the bunch. Yamaha doesn’t merely assemble golf carts in Georgia. Its Newnan operation develops, tests, fabricates and assembles products there. Yamaha certainly uses foreign components, but so far I haven’t found evidence of major imported systems in its current golf carts comparable to those documented for Club Car and E-Z-GO.

Yamaha, E-Z-GO and Club Car without question remain the gold standard in the golf-cart industry, with real and substantial U.S. manufacturing operations. That simply doesn’t mean everything that goes into their carts is 100% American.

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[MSchad]

Originally Posted by Grill Meister

Educate me, please. What are brands of golf carts manufactured in China. My research located only these:

Top Chinese golf cart brands include Evolution EV, Icon EV, HDK, Lvtong, and Borcart, which offer feature-rich electric low-speed vehicles at competitive price points.

And....I have never seen nor heard of these carts.

Just open your eyes. The first two on your list, Evolution and Icon, are all over The Villages.

[BrianL99]

Originally Posted by TheVillageGlossator

Yamaha, E-Z-GO and Club Car without question remain the gold standard in the golf-cart industry, with real and substantial U.S. manufacturing operations. That simply doesn’t mean everything that goes into their carts is 100% American.
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Those in the golf business would suggest that ClubCar is the gold standard.

EZgo & Yamaha are perhaps the "silver standard".

Garia is probably the Platinum tier. (Now owned by ClubCar). We had a small fleet of these about 10 years ago. Nice rigs.