I've owned my GEM (Polaris "golf cart" as the article says) for a couple years now. Ours is a "one-and-a-half car" household, if you will. I rarely need the bigger car during the week, and drive my GEM all around town. My wife uses the "real car" to commute to work. If I had a second "real car" I'd keep it at home, maximizing its lifetime. The economic argument this article makes is still a bit strained, I think.
- Cal Frye -----Original Message----- From: brucedp5 <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2013 03:41:12 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [EVDL] EVLN: Kentucky Embracing Electric Golf Carts as EVs on the Cheap ... ... But money can't be the whole story. A few years ago, the Wall Street Journal reported that people who drove LSVs used them for quick errands while keeping a primary car at home for longer trips. In other words, each golf cart-style vehicle is really a package with a conventional car; when you add the two together, you surely exceed the cost of the Leaf or the Volt, even before considering gas costs for the primary car. ... --Cal Frye, Network Administrator, Oberlin College www.ouuf.org www.calfrye.com "The Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, it is queerer than we CAN suppose." --J.B.S. Haldane. _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
