ORIGINAL: davidmil
Just from reading some of the post, I think if you're looking for staying time you're better off with a gas job. Someone mentioned using his duck hunting and having 1/4 battery left after 15 miles. WEll heck, there's club up the road from me that has over 100 miles of trails. You could get maybe 20 miles out before your battery died. LOL You can always strap on some extra gas tanks and travel tanks. Hard to plug that battery in. No way can they have the power or mobility of something like say a 500 c.c. engine. I'm sure they're fine in the south where most things are flat. Not only are they under powered, they're too high to go where I went riding today. I would have stranded a bad boy buggie about 100 yards into the woods. Farm work, flat ground, open country... I'm sure it would be fine. Don't expect it to be a cross country go anywhere powerful thing. Not only that... most are too darn confined to seat people comfortably like they say if one happens to weigh 200 pounds. 2 of those guys and you have a sardine holder.
I agree, if your looking to ride 100 miles in a day, the Bad Boy is not for you...YET. The new 08 model we are selling now has a range of 30 miles where the previous models had approx a 20 mile range. As the technology evolves, the buggies will get better and better. If a customer has 5000 to 6000 acres he should be okay with the buggie, but over that he would be pushing the range capability.
Bad Boys have just as much torque as the 500cc engines, but do not have near the top end speed. They have, however, been able to step up the top end from 18 to 21 mph. Now, 3 mph doesn't seem like much, but on the Bad Boy, 21 mph is cookin.
The Bad Boy is also NOT a converted golf cart. The buggies are a little longer and a little wider, so two lard butts like myself can ride comfortably in the front or rear seats...or both. I've never had a customer complain about room or feeling like a sardine can. Heck, down here in the South 200 lbs is a skinny man.
Obviously the buggies have limitations that a conventional gas powered ATV doesn't, but the advantages are clear. I have also found that once my customers start hunting in silence, they never want to crank a motorized ATV in the woods again.