Correct. I sold my golf cart, as I wasn’t using it, but I drive a 2020 Prius Prime that has a battery I recharge on 110 from a standard outlet in my garage. This gives me 27 miles of driving on battery alone before the gas engine kicks in. My rough estimation, based on SECO’s 11 cents per KWH, and using the amount of recharging the owner’s manual says I can get, works out to TWO CENTS PER MILE. For electricity. I doubt that this costs me more than about $5 a month. Meanwhile, after four years in The Villages, not needing the gas engine very often, and with almost 50,000 miles on the car, its gas usage works out to 150 MPG. Not bad.

Electric cost to power an EV cart is chump change (about a penny per mile). Gasoline cart fuel cost is 5 to 6 times higher. That chump change becomes thousands of dollars difference over the long haul.

SECOs juice mostly from natural gas power plants so the PCA has been 3 cents since October last year due to how cheap natty gas has been.
When I figure how much it cost to power a device I do not factor in the $1.15 per day. That is a fixed cost for being hooked to the grid. If I use zero kWh last month then the bill is $35. This month i powered one appliance and used one kWh. My bill is $35.08. It only cost me 8 cents to power that appliance.

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if you are that worried about .14 cents, get a GAS CART !!!

Interesting post. I only used a kill-watt- meter once on my Evolution with a 205 amp lithium battery. I found the charger to use 1200watts (about the same as a toaster oven or hair dryer). The cart charged in an hour after driving 10 miles.

1200 watts/hour, 1 hour = 10 miles. 1.2 kwh x ~.12cents/kwh comes out to aprox 1.45 cents/mile.

Once I saw how reasonable it was, I didn’t take any more readings but this post has me second guessing so I will take more.

My ‘09 Yamaha is paid for, burns about $10 gas a month and is typically in use four or five days a week for 6 or 7 miles a day. That’s about 8 to 10 cents a mile.

Just be grateful your electric is so cheap. In UK, it is app. 30+ cents a KWH.

We're old. We don't have a long haul.

This discussion is a great example of why we should all be cautious about believing statistics. "Lies, damn lies, and statistics." (Mark Twain)

And note that fuel cost is only one part of the difference between the cost of a gas cart vs. the cost of an electric cart. What about battery replacement? Both need it, but at what frequency and what cost? What about costs unique to a gas engine, such as annual oil changes and other maintenance? What about costs unique to an electric engine, such as brush changes and other maintenance?

I have had two Yamaha gas carts since moving here. I have a friend neighbor who on his third set of batteries since 2010 at about $1200.00 a pop. I know that I didn’t put $3000.00 on gas since that time. Maybe new type batteries, but the older that an electric cart gets, you could have other costs!

What about the cost of new batteries every few years?

A little bit more than every few years, 8 to 12 years or approximately 1,700 to 3,500 hours.

This road legal "cart" claims 100 watt-hours per mile :)

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700W max solar charging.

Great Point!

The Delta-Q charger that came with the EZGO Elite lithium pulled 853W max from the wall.

I am sure I could get close to 80 watt-hours per mile with 30+ tire pressure

The EZGO RXV Elite lithium has regen braking so the brake energy is put back in the battery which is why the watt-hour rating is so low. The brakes have excellent stopping power (a bit touchy) with no brake pads to wear out.

USA and Canada has NatGas coming out of it's butt...umm...So to speak...So the cost is near zero. The shale fields are the largest in the world with the only exception of West Siberia, Russia. The Artic has unlimited NatGas. The stuff is bubbling out of the summer lakes in Greenand.