Big 'Green'? IBM works on 500 miles-per-charge battery

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26. Generally where electric rates are higher then so are gas prices

While the 4 cents a mile may not be true for every part of the country, the savings in energy costs to run your vehicle are great compared to any internal combustion engine vehicle. And since the days of "cheap oil" are past gasoline is only going to get more expensive (on average) as the years go by.

I pay extra to get wind power from my electric utility, 12 cents a kilowatt hour (kWh) so my cost to drive an all-electric car would be between 2.4 cents per mile and 4.2 cents per mile.

Best case:
200 watt hours per mile / 1000 to get kWh per mile, multiplied by 12 cents in my case
or, with the heater, stereo, lights, etc., turned on:
350 watt hours per mile/ 1000 to get kWh per mile, multiplied by 12 cents

You can make an easy comparison with a gasoline burner car by dividing the price per gallon by the Miles Per Gallon

@$2.50 per gallon
40 mpg = 6.25 cents per mile
50 mpg = 5 cents per mile
60 mpg = 4.1667 cents per mile

1. It's unlikely that you pay $2.50 per gallon and your car gets 40+ MPG.
2. No matter how you slice it the electric car is cheaper to drive
3. Corporate monsters in electric vehicles -vs- corporate monsters in fossil fuels = a tie.
4. Electric vehicles are the only vehicle that will get CLEANER the longer you own it as more renewable energy is added to the grid (or solar panels get cheap enough for you to put them on your roof).