Where are you getting your information about golf cart sales? It seems Yamaha Quite Tech is still the top selling model.

Obviously, you have "bought" into the electricity can solve all of our problems and I have to admit that your efforts are admirable. You start with electric blowers. I have also gone the route of electric blowers. No big deal for you or I with our dainty lawns. If an EV works for you, great. Same with the Golf Cart.

But that doesn't work for everything. Jet engines have fans. Electricity is not ready for that. Even a simple snow blower is not ready. Are emergency vehicles ready for electric only? Ambulances, Firetrucks, police cars? Are apartment occupants able to have EVs?

But back to gas blowers. We have landscape folks making a living mowing lawns all day long. They mow, edge, and blow all day long. Is there equipment available that can do that without carrying huge amounts of batteries? Perhaps they could recharge batteries from a gas powered generator on the truck.

Do what you can, but EV's are not yet ready for everyone, Cost, infrastructure, and usefulness.

Your discussion regarding driving behind Gas Carts and arranging your order so you are in front is cute. That must be a discussion item amongst your golfing group


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The Toyota RAV$ is the top selling automobile model in the USA. They represent 3% of the USA vehicle market.

1 out of every 10 golf carts sold in the USA, is powered by gasoline. Being the "best selling gas model", gets you to about 3%-4% of the market.

All my lawn equipment is electric; I don't do it to save the earth or because of the noise or that it is less expensive than gas.
I do it because it more convenient, no trips to the gas station, no smell of fuels in my garage.
Though it is less expensive for home use I not sure it would be for professional services that are out in the field all day using their equipment.

1) an increase of one third from 0.03% to 0.04% is not "up slightly";

2) the level was below 0.02% 20,000 years ago and there were plenty of plants around then;

3) of course eliminating one weedwacker of blower won't make much difference, any more than my dropping one piece of trash will make TV look messy, but if we all did it...

4) always blaming the Far East for something that the West started decades ago is disingenuous

It is the spark arrestors that are being removed to increase the performance of gas carts and lawn equipment. Spark arrestors are only required for equipment sold in CA to help reduce wildfires. (That's working out well). Lithium powers is not the long term solution for electric powered cars and equipment. Dry cell batteries will be the long term solution as they have numerous advantages over lithium namely longer range, faster recharge, lighter weight, reduced precious metals, AND no fire danger.

I have a battery operated leafblower that's very light and works well. However, I'm not blowing leaves for a living.

My battery leaf blowers don't last too long. I always keep 2 charged so they will last long enough to clean the driveway. I get 2 to 3 years before they are useless. Still use my old gas blower for anything more than a leaf on a slick surface.

I had Dewalt e leaf blower for a while. It was ok for light work and small yards here with very few leaves.

But it didn't have near the power my Echo gas blower that I had in Indiana. It wouldn't be practical there to blow a lot of leaves.
Needless to say when we moved here full time, I sold the Dewalt and brought my Echo here.

I also had a Stihl e mower I bought new at Ace hardware, thinking it was the way to go. Stihl is top quality and the mower had great ratings. But it just didn't cut and bag as well as I expected it to.
So I sold it and bought a new Honda gas mower and haven't looked back.

Fact is, there is no perfect solution and either alternative can work, depending on the situation. I would not want to be on an electric airplane but have no problem with electric lawn stuff, mower and I own an electric car. So, instead of reducing everything to one option, let’s leave the door open to all options and eventually a break through in technology will give us better options in the future and the capitalism model will choose the best alternatives. Laisser faire!

Yet John Deere is selling electric triplex mowers to mow greens on golf courses, but electric power equipment can't handle a 3000 sq. ft. lawn in TV or blow your little driveway clean?

It's not just the gas blowers that are loud. I have an electric blower, no battery, I have to drag out the extension cord, and it is loud. I use hearing protectors when I use the blower. What will be banned next?

Professional Service
 

A professional service would never be able to maintain enough charged batteries to do a days work. Even if they could, the amount of lithium waste they generated would be tremendously high.

I'm the OP. I said in my post that I am not really "GREEN". so why the personal diatribe??? I went with battery powered due to the efficiency, quiet, no fumes, and ease of use. period. My choice. And yes, we dislike driving behind many gas carts. The fumes, esp in tunnels is not good. I didn't BUY INTO anything. (OBVIOUSLY) yikes.
So yes, it's MY CHOICE including being first on the course cart path if I can.

My choice - free country as they say...

So why are pushing your dribble on rest of us. It’s also free country for us too.