Soon to be on T-Shirts that cool EV guys wear

New Oregon Electric Vehicle Association logo designed by yours truly:

Assesment

5590 miles on this pack of batteries. That's about $0.25/mile. The Toyota's fuel cost per mile was roughly the same in July 2008 when I bought the Zap car (19 mpg @ 5590 miles). Gas was $4.25/gallon. Now, however, gas is about $3.00/gallon and so fuel cost per mile is down to about $0.15

Another way to look at it: new batteries would have to last 8,000 miles to equal the Toyota in current fuel cost per mile. Of course with the Zap the insurance is far less, and it requires no oil changes. Despite these savings, batteries make this EV about equal in cost to owning a gas car.

Unless, of course, there's another oil crisis. What could possibly happen?