Our story
Started with three carts and a grove that needed them.
Lumera Leisure Carts began in 2011 when Marisol Odom couldn’t find a golf cart sturdy enough for her family’s orange grove that didn’t also sound like a lawnmower. Fifteen years later, the workshop is bigger, but the standard hasn’t moved: build the cart we’d actually want to drive.
2011
Marisol Odom starts building carts for her own family orange grove out of a rented bay in Micanopy — three carts that first year, all sold by word of mouth.
2015
The first lithium pack replaces lead-acid across the lineup, four years before most of the industry made the switch.
2019
Lumera moves into the Persimmon Grove Road workshop and hires its first welding crew of five.
2023
The Tideline 4 launches for coastal communities, our first model built specifically for salt-air corrosion resistance.
2026
Over 6,400 Lumera carts are on the road across eleven states, still assembled by the same crew in Micanopy.
What we won’t compromise on
Built, not assembled from a catalog
We weld our own frames rather than buying stamped chassis from an overseas supplier. It costs more. It also means we can trace every failure back to a specific weld and fix the process, not just the cart.
Batteries that outlast the warranty
We picked lithium iron phosphate over cheaper lithium-ion chemistries because it degrades slower and does not thermal-runaway in a hot Florida garage. It is a harder sell at the register and an easier one five years later.
A crew, not a workforce
Twelve people build every cart that leaves the shop, and each one signs the underside of the chassis. If something goes wrong, you can ask for them by name when you call.