The world of electric golf trolleys experiences a major first as market-leading brand PowaKaddy announce its award-winning Freeway range has reached half a million sales since the introduction of the first Freeway back in 1999.
The evolution of the pioneering Freeway range has been one of golf’s big success stories over the last two decades, helping to grow the electric trolley sector to a wider range of golfers, whilst making the sport more enjoyable and less physically-demanding.
After the successful introduction of the first Freeway trolley in March 1999, the brand’s popular range has evolved through several generations, but one of the biggest game-changers came just 12 months after the original launch, in the year 2000. As the sport and its technology progressed into the 21st Century, PowaKaddy engineers created a revolutionary new sleek design that reduced the width of the Freeway trolley from over 70cm to under 60cm – and, in doing so, developed a trend which the trolley industry was to follow in the years to come, right up until the present day.
With a slimmer Freeway design came arguably the biggest advancement in trolley technology – the ability to fold the trolley more easily and into a much more compact size. This has progressed through to trolleys as we know them today, with PowaKaddy’s simple 3-fold system that saves time, energy and hassle for golfers who rely on transporting their trolley in smaller car boots and storing in tighter spaces.
A number of hi-tech cutting-edge additions have followed and now also feature prominently in the award-winning 2016 Freeway range. These include a technology-packed digital screen, Adjustable Distance Control, Distance Measurement function, USB port for charging GPS devices, Plug ‘n’ Play battery system and, most recently on the new FW7s, a calorie counter to show how many calories the golfer has burned in a round.
“PowaKaddy has always been dedicated to providing golfers with the very best in reliability, innovation and performance, and there’s no doubt the Freeway range has pushed boundaries in all of those categories and shaped trolleys as we know them today,” said PowaKaddy Chairman, John deGraft-Johnson. “We’d like to thank every golfer who has been a part of the PowaKaddy family, as well as our valued stockists, who continue to support the brand and allow us to that take trolleys like our new FW7s onto levels never seen before.
“We’re proud the Freeway holds the coveted status of being the world’s best-selling electric trolley range,” added deGraft-Johnson. “There have been several key game-changing pieces of technology over the years, including the introduction of the 3-way folding system and, thanks to our expert R&D team, the brand continues to innovate and introduce new technologies today. An example here would be our current line of Lithium batteries, which have been proven to give golfers 20% more staying power than other leading batteries*.
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