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Electric UTV - Polaris EV?

Posted on 5/5/18 at 10:20 am
Posted by dcw7g
Member since Dec 2003
1971 posts
Posted on 5/5/18 at 10:20 am
Any opinions here on the best electric UTV/side-by-side? Hard to find any recent reviews. This Polaris EV lsounds good, but who knows. I’d love to be able to ride trails without engine noise. Not opposed to a good hunting golf cart either, but my property does have a few steep creek crossings.

Polaris EV
Posted by weisertiger
Lake Charles, LA
Member since Sep 2007
2480 posts
Posted on 5/5/18 at 11:07 am to
You will have to make your life’s mission to defeat and prevent corrosion on the batteries and cables. Cost around a grand to replace all the batteries if they are not properly maintained
Posted by auggie
Opelika, Alabama
Member since Aug 2013
27995 posts
Posted on 5/5/18 at 12:05 pm to
I don't understand why nobody has made an electric 4 wheeler yet.
Seems like it would be easy.
Posted by Barneyrb
NELA
Member since May 2016
5113 posts
Posted on 5/5/18 at 12:53 pm to
I would not recommend any of the electric utv's on the market. I know of a couple Polaris units that Polaris can't fix and bad boy buggy's are even worse.
Posted by dcw7g
Member since Dec 2003
1971 posts
Posted on 5/5/18 at 8:04 pm to
Ok. So electric UTVs apparently suck. Any of the gas powered models known to be quieter?
Posted by tigers84
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Member since Jun 2008
2738 posts
Posted on 5/6/18 at 7:38 am to
I owned a Stealth Predator electric cart for a few years. Not sure if they still make them. It handled the hills/creek bottoms in MS and I brought it to my brothers camp in AR and I was surprised how well it did in the mud. Never got it stuck and it was only 2 wheel drive. That being said the mud and hills will drain the batteries a lot faster. I sold it due to getting out of that lease. However, if you have a camp that has electricity, they are nice to have cause you can slip around without a sound. That was my only issue, we didn’t have electricity so I had no way to charge it. They said don’t charge it with a generator because it will mess up the batteries.
Posted by bbvdd
Memphis, TN
Member since Jun 2009
25006 posts
Posted on 5/6/18 at 7:56 am to
You can get a muffler silencer for your side x side.

They work really well.
Posted by dawg23
Baton Rouge, La
Member since Jul 2011
5065 posts
Posted on 5/6/18 at 8:24 am to
My brother has a Polaris EV -- only had it for 6 months, but so far it's been OK. Too early to really know. Uses it on his place outside of (west of) Woodville. HAndles hills fine.

I have a 48 volt 2WD Beast. Bought it 7 years ago. Zero problems. Still using original batteries (but they are AGM's). Probably wouldn't get this life span from regular lead acid batteries. Haven't yet found any hills it couldn't climb.

Had a BBB before getting the Beast. Serious problems with the BBB. In fairness, mine was the original BBB (before E-Z-Go bought them). But I'll never own another one.
Posted by tiger chaser
Birmingham Ala
Member since Feb 2008
7624 posts
Posted on 5/6/18 at 9:24 am to
Have a HuntVe. Equal to a stealth in quality.
72 volt 4-wheel drive. Had it since 2015.
No problems. Great for hunting. I like it because I can slip through the woods quitely
Got to Huntve.com an check them out.
Posted by X123F45
Member since Apr 2015
27428 posts
Posted on 5/6/18 at 12:30 pm to
Don't do this

Just get a shitty Honda side by side and let a muffler shop build you an exhaust off of the factor exhaust.

Two mufflers and 1.5in piping off of factor and it'll be nice and quiet without killing your power.
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