Why should we drive electric vehicles in Petersburg?

Gasoline costs about $4.50 per gallon and is a non-renewable resource.
An average gasoline vehicle gets about 20 mpg costing about 22.5 cents per mile to operate. When you include oil changes and anti-freeze the cost increases to about 24 cents per mile.

Petersburg’s electricity costs about 11 cents per kilowatt-hour and is a fully renewable resource. Neighborhood Electric Vehicles (NEV) use about 175 whrs per mile. This equates too less than 2 cents per mile. If you include the cost of battery bank replacement the cost increases to about 13 cents per mile. (It will cost about $2,250 to replace the battery pack, however the batteries that come with the vehicle will last +/- 20,000 miles.)

Short trips are very hard on gasoline engines whereas electric vehicles are ideally suited for the short trip to the store or Post Office.