About golf buggies

A golf buggy is a small, low-speed electric vehicle built to carry two to eight people short distances over private ground. It was designed for a golf course and it has ended up doing a much wider job: moving wedding guests across an estate, crew around a festival site, staff across a hospital campus. The vehicle barely changed. What changed is how many places turned out to have the same problem of distance.

The questions people ask before hiring one are almost always specification questions, and they are reasonable ones. How fast does it actually go. How much does it weigh, because the venue has asked. Why is the steering wheel on the left. What would one cost to buy, if hiring turns out not to suit. The guides below answer those plainly, with the numbers where numbers are known and an honest 'it depends on the model' where they are not.

The specifications vary more between models than the marketing suggests, which is why these guides give ranges and say where a figure depends on the vehicle. Top speed, weight, range on a charge and load capacity all shift with the model, the battery type and its age, and a number stated with false precision is less useful than an honest range plus the reason it moves.