Current generation hybryds may be more expensive, but true electric vehicles will hands down beat an ice vehicle. No gas, no oil changes, no motor, no tranny or exhaust. ther isn't much else to maintain when these systems are gone, even the breaks don't wear out nearly as fast as a regular car does. the batteries don't fail completely, they just slowly fade and the new ones like a123 systems last for thousands of cycles before this starts to happen.
This year, the chevy volt is a pure electric the first 40miles, then a lawnmower engine takes over to power a generator for the batteries. Nissan's scion(I may have the name wrong?) goes about 170km and it is all electric. Who here commutes more than 40 miles a day?
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