Anyone driving a car with a 300,000 mile engine, raise your hand.

OK, now drivers with 400,000 miles on their engine?

Anyone driving a Diesel golf cart, raise your other hand?

I have a 13 year old Hybrid car and have seen zero battery degradation. I know several Tesla owners with 7 or more years and zero drop in range.

Yes, and some people have both.

My dad (Audi) and brother (BMW) both went over 300k miles and I have a friend (Acura) with over 300k miles, probably approaching 400k if he still has it. There aren’t any diesel golf carts. Do you have a reading comprehension problem as I referenced semis and container ships? Perhaps you should reread the post.

I have NEVER seen people "staying out of the car" while filling the gas tank in Florida ?

No sir. I recognize nonsense, as soon as I read it. Don't have to read it a second time.

So you think nobody has gone over 300k miles? Is that what you are saying? Well, you are wrong and you are the one who is spouting nonsense, just like you did earlier in the day. Have a good evening and find someone else to spout off to.

Thanks. That makes sense. Maybe I was confusing E-cars and E-carts ?

I am aware of what you are saying about diesel engines. They can have a long life. But, the engines in long haul trucks are built of high quality materials and are designed for long life. And they have relatively low RPMs. Ship engines would be even lower RPMs. Remember the 1st "throw-away" chevy diesel. The gasoline type pistons could not handle the diesel compression stress. If a diesel reciprocating engine with certain quality of parts were to be compared to an Electric vehicle circular rotating motor with the same quality of parts......I believe that the electric vehicle would last longer. So, in this case I believe that BOTH opinions can be true.

I had a gas Volvo with over 300k on it. It was running well when I sold it.

We're down to 300,000 miles now?

That's probably more than a little optimistic for most automobiles, but some folks don't have the financial capability to be buying new cars all the time and have to nurse their old buggy until it drops.

EZGO and Club Car use NMC battery technology...Most others are LFP.

EZGO uses Samsung SDI NMC cells and as of MY2021 they replaced the "E" series cells with "G" series. The new cells are more robust in every way. I calculated the charging at 0.15C and 4.05V per cell. This is very slow charging to about 90% capacity which will not harm the cells much. No doubt you will get their 80% capacity @ 1000 charge cycles spec (and probably do much better - Perhaps 90%) with the EZGO...That's 48 miles of range at 60,000 miles instead of 60 miles when new. Calendar life should be about 15 years in this application.

LFP batteries have very little voltage drop from 100-0% SOC which makes it difficult to calculate vehicle range. The reason why they want you to charge full all the time is so that the BMS system can recalibrate range. Tesla uses LFP batteries on model 3 and Y Standard Range and NMC batteries on their Long Range.

I can imagine "rolling coal" in a golf cart :)

When I lived in Europe I had a Honda with about 400K miles and It saw the Autobahn almost every day. I suspect the 2025 Camry will be trouble free for 20 years regardless of miles. Elon says Teslas have a million mile chassis so it probably doesn't.

There are very few moving parts to wear on an electric cart...Maybe the motor end bearing and front wheel bearings. The transaxle will last close enough to forever. The EZGO RXV Elite uses reverse motor braking so no brake pads to wear.

300k-400k, that's nothing.
I have had the same broom for 20 years.
It's had 17 new heads and 14 new handles.
Still as good as new.


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I wonder what happens with the EZGO when the driver just "taps" the brake pedal to get a slight slowdown.It seems like that would confuse the engine and would it reverse for just a short time and then go back to forward. Apparently it works, but i don't see why not have regular friction brakes in combination with motor reversal ?