Rick Dauner said: For those of you that use electric utility carts, how do you like them? Do they maintain enough power to get through a typical golf maintenance day. Wondering about pros and cons vs gas powered utility carts.
My super, mechanic, and I has electric club cars. They were great for awhile, but after a year or two they became more sluggish and didn't seem to hold a charge for long. We were usually plugging them in at lunch and sometimes still not getting a full day, though we did run them pretty hard. If you're hauling a trailer or more specifically a pull behind blower, it will kill the battery real quick. It seemed that after a fall season of blowing leaves with them, it really wore the batteries/cart out.
I liked them, because they were quite nice getting around the course and around play without making a lot of noise like a gas would. However it was a pain as they got older when they started to not last, even with replacement batteries. I would not recommend them for your whole fleet, I would stick to gas ones for the rest of the crew, and if you're going to get electric, get them for you and assistants. I would recommend an electric one with 8 batteries, as we had ones with 6 and we're told we probably should of went with the 8