[BrianL99]

Originally Posted by ILLINOIS RAY

If you want Electric, you can find them always for sale as people find out they are not reliable and are limiting

I'm sure that's why Electric out sells gasoline powered, 2:1 and there's hardly a community in the USA, that allows residents to own a gasoline power golf cart for use in the community.

I know it will never happend, but just ONCE, I'd like to see someone come on here and say:

"I bought a Lithium powered electric cart with a 50 miles range and it $uck$. I'm going to trade it for a gasoline powered cart".

[Bill14564]

Originally Posted by ILLINOIS RAY

If you want Electric, you can find them always for sale as people find out they are not reliable and are limiting

In what way are lithium electric carts unreliable?

If I never drive more than 40 miles in a day while my cart has a range of 60 miles then how is that limiting?

[Mazjaz]

Depends on where you live. I live in the Sawgrass area and make frequent trips up to Spanish Springs to visit family and friends. Did it with our lithium cart that gets up to 50 miles per charge and had about 20% left when we got back home.
I would definitely get one that has at least a 75 mile range next time. We use our gas cart for longer trips now but want to eventually have just one cart…it will be a lithium cart with longer range.

[kkingston57]

Originally Posted by Vinscalese

Trying to decide on new cart. Really like the electric but have range anxiety! lol…. Not moved in yet so new and not sure how many miles people really go. Is 75 or so miles on the STAR enough do you think?

Live in TV for 4 years and live in the north end. Too far to drive a golf cart if I want to go to southern end(can be 45-60 minutes). Like the acceleration and torque in the electric cart. With a strong electric battery, should be no problem going with electric. Gas carts have a harder time on steep hills

[huge-pigeons]

The evolution cart doesn’t compare with the Yamaha quiet drive2. If you compare like carts, the lithium will cost you more. Then in 7 years or so, you will spend thousands for batteries.
Lithium does lose its strength over time. How does your iPhone work after a couple years?

[JMintzer]

Originally Posted by BrianL99

I'm sure that's why Electric out sells gasoline powered, 2:1 and there's hardly a community in the USA, that allows residents to own a gasoline power golf cart for use in the community.

Electrics outsell gas IN THE VILLAGES 2:1?

Please tell me where you got that information.

Plus, there's hardly a community the size of TV anywhere in the country...

We have friends that live in Marisol, in Palm Beach Gardens. Electric only golf carts. The entire development is the size of one or two Villages... Range is not an issue...

[Topspinmo]

Originally Posted by twoplanekid

I have owned electric golf carts since day one in the Villages some 9 years ago and have never run out of juice. However, I was a private pilot for over 50 years and never ran out of gas so I do pay attention to fuel/electric status. And, some day I hope to own a Tesla to charge up at home like I do with electric golf carts.

P.S. - my current electric cart with a 1 1/2 year old battery still gives me over 45 plus miles of range which is enough for me

How about in 2 more years? Will that distance drop? Most likely will get worse each year. My 12 year old FI cart still get around 42 miles gallon. It’s cost me in parts not labor 2 quarts oil year, two tires, tie rod end, secondary clutch, 4, belts, and around 8 fill ups years. It still runs like it did when new. Most electric carts will probably had replace at least 2 sets of batteries in 12 years, but, do most don’t keep electric cart that long?

[tedquick]

Originally Posted by golfing eagles

I'm afraid you opened this can of worms again---gas vs electric.

Gas is reliable, you'll get 250+ miles on a tank and if you ever run out and get stuck, cart aide can bring you a gallon

Electric is quiet and the range is improving. Electric enthusiasts will deny that the range decreases with battery age, others disagree. Eventually batteries need to be replaced---the enthusiasts claim 10-15 years, others 5-8 years. But if you plan poorly and get stuck you will get towed.

I currently own a Yamaha gas cart. I will change to electric when they attain about 90% of the reliability of gas.

Full disclosure: I will NEVER change to electric anything to "save the planet" from global warming---utter nonsense.

Your last sentence is accurate and priceless!!!

[aloisbaughn2133]

I too was concerned about how far south the Villages is growing and thought I should be able to take a cart everywhere and that's why I bought a Par Car with 70 mile range but when reality set in I quickly found out that although the cart would go to Brownwood and back, my butt wouldn't -
it's too uncomfortable to ride that far - I live near Lopez and my distance limit it 466A -- I wouldn't have a gas cart so I recommed buying the best electric with the best range- I like EZGO

[tophcfa]

Originally Posted by BrianL99

There’s hardly a community in the USA, that allows residents to own a gasoline power golf cart for use in the community.[/B]

Regardless of my feelings about gas versus electric, I would never buy a home in a community that dictated what kind of golf cart I could drive.

[BrianL99]

Originally Posted by tophcfa

Regardless of my feelings about gas versus electric, I would never buy a home in a community that dictated what kind of golf cart I could drive.

But owning home in a community that won't let you cut down a tree without their permission, change the color of your home or put shutters on your home, is a different story?

Everyone is entitled to their own priorities.

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

Originally Posted by Normal

LOL, as if batteries still hold a charge for that far after a couple years!

They do
My Elite is 6yo with 17K miles. I don't see a bit of degradation

[Packer Fan]

Originally Posted by Rocksnap

Wow! Calling your need of having gas cart issues over the last 10 years. You can just drive them till failure. Or, hear me out, do a lil preventative maintenance on them.
If you are blowing belts on a Yamaha, you are doing something seriously wrong.
During my years overseeing a fleet of 70 gas carts that run 36 holes, 7 days a week for 5 years, a blown belt is not in my vocabulary.

Have them serviced regularly and running a fleet at 14 mph is not even close to the same as the beating they take running higher speeds in the villages. Apples to oranges dude.

[BrianL99]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Shoelaces

They do
My Elite is 6yo with 17K miles. I don't see a bit of degradation

I have an MGI Lithium Golf Caddie. It's 7 years old. It went about 47 holes on a charge, the week I bought it. It's gone 45 holes on a charge, twice this month. It's got about 3000 miles on it.

[Normal]

Originally Posted by BrianL99

I'm sure that's why Electric out sells gasoline powered, 2:1 and there's hardly a community in the USA, that allows residents to own a gasoline power golf cart for use in the community.

I know it will never happend, but just ONCE, I'd like to see someone come on here and say:

"I bought a Lithium powered electric cart with a 50 miles range and it $uck$. I'm going to trade it for a gasoline powered cart".

If you drove a cart from Spanish Springs to Southern Oaks or one of the newer courses near Eastport and played golf, then you might not make it home.