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treehugger.com - 12/2/2008

4,000 Electric Vehicles To Be Leased by US Army

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US Army to deploy 4000 electric base transport vehicles to save on fuel costs
Newlaunches.com — ... 10,000 vehicles. The Neighborhood Electric Vehicles will be purchased from golf cart maker E-Z-GO as well as other vendors. Conventional base transport vehicles consume $2400 worth of fuel, with the electric vehicles this costs will boil down to just $400 on the power bill of each vehicle. The 4,000 electric cars will save an estimated 11.5 million gallons of fuel per year. The icing on the cake is that the electric vehicles will cost the same as gasoline vehicles for the Army. Via

US Army To Lease 4,000 Electric Vehicles, Swap Slogan For "An Army Of Nerds" [I Feel Gassy]
Jalopnik — ... vehicles with low speed electric runabouts on Forts across the US. The plan will kickoff next year with 800 EVs being commissioned for service at Fort Belvoir and then expanded to 4,000 of the little buggers over the next three years. This should save an estimated 11.5 million gallons of fuel. The Air Force and Navy have expressed interest in getting on board with the program, so we may have an entire military driving stealthy, nerdy, fuel efficient vehicles. [Army Times via Treehugger] ...