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Jun 06, 2023

Peachtree City, Georgia, Prides Itself on Golf Cart Usage

A kingdom built on little electric vehicles. Plus: Downtowns, transformed. Photographer: Levi Mandel Welcome to Bw Daily, the Bloomberg Businessweek newsletter, where we’ll bring you interesting

A kingdom built on little electric vehicles. Plus: Downtowns, transformed.

Photographer: Levi Mandel

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As the school day ends at McIntosh High School in Peachtree City, Georgia, a flood of chattering teenagers flows toward the parking lot, keys in hand. A mini-traffic jam forms as the students hop in their rides and head home. It’s a scene one might encounter at countless high schools across the car-dominated suburbs of the US—except most of these McIntosh students aren’t driving cars, they’re in golf carts.