About Electric Vehicles
Benefits
1. Savings
• Charging at home is like paying $1.95/gallon for gasoline.*
• Gasoline cars have thousands more parts to maintain than EVs.
2. Convenience
• Charge at home or work. Never visit a gas station again.
• Fewer service appointments
3. Safety
• Less rollover risk
• No gasoline and no fumes
• Better traction in winter
• Safely merge into traffic with confidence
4. Performance
• Stable cornering
• Accelerate without hesitation
5. Comfort
• Quiet ride
• Cabin warms without waiting for the engine to warm up.
Two Types of Electric Vehicles
1. All-electric vehicles (aka battery electric vehicles or BEVs) run solely on electricity.
2. Plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) have both an internal combustion engine and an electric motor. They have both a gas tank and a battery. Unlike hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs), PHEVs can be plugged in to charge.
Range
The average range of new all-electric vehicles is about 300 miles on a fully charged battery. Several vehicle models are rated for over 400 miles of range.**
Most plug-in hybrid electric vehicles have less than 100 miles of electric range, plus 300-400 miles of gasoline range.
* A 2026 Tesla Model Y (27kWh/100-mile) using $.24/kwh electricity would cost the same per mile as a 2025 Toyota RAV4 (30-mpg) using $1.95/gallon gasoline.