I prefer electric golf carts for their quiet, reliability, and the gifts to clean air that they bring to the table! Someone will say that they are unreliable - but electrical motors always require less downtime and maintenance than their infernal combustion engine counterparts. Think about it this way - electrical motors have a continuous circular motion. Gas engines have several pistons FLAILING about up and down - the pistons start then stop and reverse over and over causing maximum friction. One motor is SMOOTH and quiet the other is LOUD, VIBRATES, BELCHES SMOKE, and is hard to maintain.
And several very intelligent posters have mentioned "supply and demand" as determinates of price. True....... .....not counting any area cartel-like MONOPOLIES or price gouging and excess profits - which may or may not be going on in TV Land. On the DEMAND side for electrical golr carts.......if DEMAND increased - prices EVENTUALLY would be driven downward - and supply would INCREASE.
In a perfect capital market system TV Land would have greater choice for both gas and electric vehicles - and let the BETTER product win! And remember when you buy a GAS car or golf cart you INDIRECTLY reward the MIDDLE EAST - WHILE hurting your grandchild lungs by way of the less clean air that they will breathe.

I would think that if the cart was under warranty, any "authorized dealer" would be required to service it. Out of warranty, and you would have to find an independent service agent to do the work. There seems to be plenty of these around TV.

The cart we bought last fall has gone up a grand!

We bought a brand new cart, fully loaded at LSL and could not be happier. We love our nice, quiet gas Yamaha cart and we can drive from Mallory to Fenney area with gas to spare. Whatever makes you happy in life is what you should do. Enjoy it while you can. Amen.

A year ago the prices were about $1,500 less expensive.

We have one called MMP.

gifts to clean air

Do you know where residential electric comes from? Everything made from, produced from, and mined from fossil fuels majority of electric produced from fossil fuels. You may feel better but it’s stilll dirty.:welcome:

Wait til he finds out how they mine the lithium for the batteries.

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I bought my 2017 Yamaha from Cunningham in KT, came with the wheels and tires, windshield, turn signal indicators for 8k, then had the enclosure, dashboard, liquid lights, and extras added for 2k at Villages Discount, the equivalent to what TV was charging 13.5k at the time. That was late 2016, saved 3.5k at the time, included shipping to TV.

Who do you think makes the lithium batteries for electric carts?

I"m there bro!

Same carts up north are half the price.

It is hard to rationalize bad behavior that leads to bad and really terrible outcomes for ones' future generations. Talk about mining and lithium batteries all you want, but tide generation, solar farms, and wind farms are the FUTURE and the internal combustion engine will be a historic relic like horse-drawn carriages and the steam engine. Get with the program and the future - buy electric vehicles and golf cars!

Too bad none of those things will power a golf cart...

Too bad none is that will happen for another 100 years. We will all be dust. Naturally nothing lasts for ever.