[golfing eagles]

Originally Posted by Randyj66

Why wouldn't you all think about public electric transportation! After all it's already in place in most of the areas that you moved from. Humble yourselves and ride a bus! It won't kill you! Talk about relieving congestion! Wow what a great idea!

Think about lugging 6 bags of groceries and a 50# bag of dog food on "public electric transportation", especially in the rain. Go right ahead and "humble" yourself and "relieve congestion"--- one less car on the road in my way! Wow, what a great idea!

PS: Your bus will be 4 hours late as it needs to get charged

[Neils]

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[dewilson58]

Originally Posted by Neils

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Well said.

[Two Bills]

I will just keep using my gas guzzling lump of a car, and leave all the battery worries to the kids and grandkids.
"Fire up the Quatro!"

[graciegirl]

Yes I understand all that has been said on this thread. I know that the golf carts sitting motionless next to the cart paths in the last fifteen years have mostly been electric ones. Back then I could more easily walk home. Not so much now. When we are being green, we have to be realistic too. I suggest recycling, reusing, repurposing. Like wear your older clothes and pull up the weeds if it makes you feel better than using herbicide. Use a bread bag for your leftover sandwiches instead of a nice clean new plastic bag. Quit lecturing and be a little more practical. There is nothing worse than an uninformed person on Climate Change, unless it is an overzealous Greenie.

[MSchad]

Originally Posted by Velvet

Have a battery station where you exchange the battery. You pay only for the charge in a fully charged battery. You swap out the batteries, a lithium battery is not that heavy. Like a vending machine for batteries. Swapping stations are already in practice in Taiwan for scooters (Yamaha).

And who swaps the batteries for those who can’t do it themselves? Who mans the stations? How do your dead batteries get recharged? Need to pay for more than just the charge in the swapped batteries.

[MSchad]

Originally Posted by Bogie Shooter

I cannot understand why The Villages should have to provide.......even if they could afford it.

Because the Villages are supposed to supply everything forever (sarcasm).
People don’t seem to realize the developer is a private, for profit business. They need to talk to the CDD’s that actually run things after development is completed.

[Velvet]

Originally Posted by MSchad

And who swaps the batteries for those who can’t do it themselves? Who mans the stations? How do your dead batteries get recharged? Need to pay for more than just the charge in the swapped batteries.

There is a vending type machine with the batteries. Mechanical arms change the battery. It takes yours, and puts new ones in place. You sign up for the service annually. Since you get different fully charged batteries each time, you do not need to buy new batteries every 8 years. No one mans the station it is self serve. This is already in practice for various vehicles such as scooters and segways in some countries.

[jarodrig]

Originally Posted by Velvet

Have a battery station where you exchange the battery. You pay only for the charge in a fully charged battery. You swap out the batteries, a lithium battery is not that heavy. Like a vending machine for batteries. Swapping stations are already in practice in Taiwan for scooters (Yamaha).

You obviously know nothing about electric golf carts.......

[Velvet]

This is for the future... and I agree I have a lot to learn about electric golf carts, I’m just visualizing the future. Good luck with the charging station.

[OrangeBlossomBaby]

Originally Posted by Mortal1

are paying for this bill for many years to come and I personally don't wish my hard earned cash to pay for someone else's charging station. If you need a charging station then add a surcharge to those using electric vehicles to pay for it.

I never wanted my hard-earned cash to pay for someone else's kids' public education, or someone living in a different state using the roads in my state, or snow plows to plow a road I don't personally ever use...

But there's a price to pay for being civilized. And I'm willing to pay that price in exchange for civilization.

Your mileage may vary.

As for the topic itself - charging stations - there are charging stations up north, they're not all over the place but they're not rare either. Mostly for electric cars. There ARE people here in the Villages who drive electric cars. And there ARE people who live outside the Villages who drive electric cars into the Villages.

Unfortunately because of the "me" mentality around here, it's not going to be practical to set up charging stations courtesy of the government. They'll have to be set up as a pay-per-use system. If I know the person ahead of me is PAYING for that electricity I'm not as likely to whine about them taking too long because MY electricity is more urgent than theirs.

They'd need to set up a whole bank of them though, and require that the credit card remain inserted in the machine until the person is ready to drive away. Otherwise people will just park, charge, and leave their carts there while they go shopping.

[tuccillo]

Nope, that is not typically how electric chargers for cars work. Typically, you are charged per kWh or the number of minutes you are charging or per kWh and then a penalty if you stay connected once you are charged. You pay many chargers via an app that is linked to a credit card.

Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby

They'd need to set up a whole bank of them though, and require that the credit card remain inserted in the machine until the person is ready to drive away. Otherwise people will just park, charge, and leave their carts there while they go shopping.

[Northwoods]

Originally Posted by Randyj66

Why wouldn't you all think about public electric transportation! After all it's already in place in most of the areas that you moved from. Humble yourselves and ride a bus! It won't kill you! Talk about relieving congestion! Wow what a great idea!

I have no issue riding a bus. Where do I catch one in the Villages to go from one Square to the other? Or to go from my Village to Publix? I'd be happy to do that. (Although carrying those grocery bags from the drop-off point to my house in the summer might be an issue).

[Dr Winston O Boogie jr]

They couldn't just have electrical outlets. There would have to be several chargers for the different models of golf carts.

Someone might eventually invent a charger that would work with all carts and simply have different plugs and a switch to turn to your cart's make and model.

Since the federal government is so interested in protecting the environment by subsidizing the manufacture of electric vehicles, maybe they could pay to have something invented and installed. That way we could start getting rid of all the noisy, gas guzzling, polluting gas golf carts.

Of course, there is also the problem with carts taking hours to charge. That would also have to be solved. But all the government seems to have plenty of money. Maybe they should do a study.

[DeanFL]

Originally Posted by Dr Winston O Boogie jr

They couldn't just have electrical outlets. There would have to be several chargers for the different models of golf carts.

Someone might eventually invent a charger that would work with all carts and simply have different plugs and a switch to turn to your cart's make and model.

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We have a 48V Tomberlin - they have an 'onboard charger system'. It uses regular 120V and a regular cord/plug. When back from using we simply 'plug it in' with a heavy duty extension cord from the regular outlet in the wall 3' away in the garage.

Not sure how other mfrs do theirs...
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