Figure the cost per mile from the increased electric bill; I’ll guess that savings are minimal or non-existent.
“Figure the cost per mile from the increased electric bill; I’ll guess that savings are minimal or non-existent.”
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This.
My guess is these people are deluding themselves.....
Let's see about that. My car gets around 15 mpg in the city, but that's probably below average. Let's say the average car gets 20 mpg in the city. These golf carts can drive four miles on the road (I assume that's one way), so to make things easy, let's assume that the store is 2.5 miles away (5 miles round trip).
Gas is about $3.25 a gallon where I live. If I get 20 miles a gallon, it costs me $.81 cents in gas to drive to the store and back. If you're getting 15 miles a gallon, which might be more realistic for that type of stop and go driving, it's $1.08. We'll ignore the other costs of driving (the IRS gives businesses $0.55 per mile) to make it easy.
Golf cars go about 20 miles on a charge. According to the below site, it takes 5 hours to fully recharge a battery at a 1.2 kilowatt hour. My electric bill is about $.08 per kilowatt hour. So a full 5 hour charge costs $0.48, from which I can make 4 trips to the store. Each trip costs $0.12.
That's not a bad savings.
http://greenmyfleet.com/conversion-solutions/hybridconversion/solarhybridconversion/188-roihawaiiprincesolargolfcarts.html