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In the most basic sense, your electric golf cart works by providing electric power from a battery pack to a motor that turns your wheels. Everything else involved is just a way of controlling when and how much of that power is being delivered. The battery pack is pretty basic. It could be anywhere from 6 to 48 volts, but it\u2019s usually 36 or 48 volts on most newer electric golf carts.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The battery pack\u2019s power is routed to the motor, but along the way, it is changed by a solenoid and a speed controller to give you only the power you\u2019re asking for and only when you\u2019re asking for it. The solenoid is basically a switch. Like a light switch, it just turns on the power when you press your pedal, and turns it off after you release the pedal. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The speed controller is a little more complex, but it varies the amount of power going to your motor based on how far down you push the pedal. We\u2019ll talk about all of these electric golf cart components in more depth, but we\u2019re gonna start with the battery.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electric golf cart battery pack<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Your electric golf cart batteries<\/a> are what introduce the electrical energy to make your golf cart go. Batteries work by changing chemical energy into electrical energy. Different types of batteries use different types of chemical reactions to do this, but for the most part they\u2019re all very similar. We did a whole article on golf cart batteries <\/a>if you want to know more, but for this article you just need to know that some acid and some metal are reacting in a way that creates electrical energy.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eventually the chemical reaction will equalize, and at this point you have discharged your battery. When you charge it, you\u2019re actually just recreating the conditions for this chemical reaction. Over time, through wear and a process called sulfation, you\u2019ll get less and less chemical reaction when you charge the batteries, and eventually they\u2019ll require replacement. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The battery is a pretty simple component, but obviously it is one of the most important since without the battery you have no electrical energy.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n

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