The Army, Navy and Air Force plan to purchase 4,000 electric cars for on-base transport. These are said to be 35-mile-an-hour electric cars and light trucks to provide on-base transport. The first batch will be of 800 cars, and 4,000 over the next three years. The final count of this would be approx 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.

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