[NeilBlanchard]

Cost per mile is fairly straight forward: the Nissan Leaf is a fair-to-middlin' EV and the EPA rates it at 340Wh/mile, so 300 x 340Wh = 102kWh. Around here we pay about 16 cents / kWh so that is $16.32.

Electric A/C, power steering, and brakes are all normal and available. Electric heat is the biggest challenge, but that is because the electric drivetrain is so efficient it has almost no waste heat.

It takes as much or more electricity to run a gasoline car a given distance, than it does to run an electric car the same distance. So, guess which one has a worse impact on the environment?

Gasoline doesn't come out of thin air, either. In fact it takes a lot of energy to produce gasoline and to transport it to your tank. Discovery of oil, drilling for oil, pumping the oil out of the ground (sometimes heating water to loosen it up!), moving the oil via pipelines and/or tankers, refining the oil (which takes a lot of natural gas and a lot of electricity), and then storing and transporting the gasoline, and then pumping it into your tank. A lot of steps, and a lot of invested energy.