The era of gasoline is dying and many automakers are reducing engine sizes from V8's to V6's, economy car to hybrid car, and now alternative and electric.
These innovations by such large companies is a huge step. You must have already asked yourself, why just start now and why not a long time ago? Well car makers now accept that we are in a gas crisis and they need to time perfect their vehicle's reliability and safety for the common market of us, the consumer, to drive their vehicles under their name out in the real world. It's alot on their shoulders when they sell to the world.
So Mini came out with the Cooper E. It has battery packs that will carry the car 125-150 miles on a single charge and has a performance result of a 0-60 MPH in 8.5 seconds. That's as fast as half the gasoline cars sold today. BMW (the owner of MINI) is showcasing this vehicle as their launch into alternative transportaion.
The MINI E isn't cheap. You can only lease it for a heavy $850 per month for 12 months. Then you gotta hand it over.
So I did the math and if you use 1 tank of gas in a normal Mini (about 270 miles) every 2 weeks at $2.40 a gallon for a year you would have spent about $2,862 + The cost of the whole car($20,000-$30,000) then re-selling the car after 12 months you will end up real deep in money spend on gas alone.
Renting the Mini E costs about $10,200 over that 12 month program.
Through and through you could go either way, it just depends on how you want to leave your carbon footprint.
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