I've had a regular lifted cart, a BBB and currently own a BBB. I've never had the nightmare's that you hear from others. I'm sure just like anything, there's going to be some bad ones in the bunch - maybe BBB does have more than others I suppose. But there's so many club cars and ez-go's out there, it's no big deal when they blow up. People buy a "specialty" cart like the BBB and there's that niche market using them - by golly you are going to hear about it when there's a problem. I'm sure there's a fair number of folks that have had issues with the plain lifted carts.

So, that being said, I would say depending voltage, type/age of batteries, controller type, 2wd vs 4wd, hills/flat, etc - ie lots of different factors - you can get probably 8-15 miles on a full charge. The way they "judge" the life of golf cart batteries is if they can get two rounds of golf out of them.

I've personally never drained any of mine completely to the point where I was broke down. I usually plug it in overnight, go hunt or whatever in the morning, maybe plug it in for a few hours during the day or maybe just an hour while I'm grabbing lunch or something, then go hunt with it that evening. As far as lifetime of batteries - I'd say the average is around 3 years.