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Remember Peachtree City, Georgia , the land of a thousand golfcarts ? Now Panasonic Automotive and AT&T are teaming up to test "connected car" technology, using that community as a model.
What would be the problem of me using regular car batteries in my golfcart? I just need to connect them in line to add to 36 volts. Am I missing something.
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That salty water can wreak havoc with electrical connections in submerged batteries. While visiting my parents in Florida during Hurricane Irma several years ago, I was able to combine a 48V golfcart inverter with several e-bike batteries to power fans and other 120VAC devices in their home while we waited five days for power to be restored.
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The fact that no journalists do their research to bring up all those connections is sad, sad. You guys go ahead and buy your 40 mile per charge GM golfcart. Why cant they just pull out the EV1 again? Call it the EV2? I guarantee well never see the Volt. Same tricks, different decade. If you have a solution I am all ears.
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