Trivia Question: How Many Electric Cars Are There in the U.S.?

Electric cars. Are there more articles than cars?

It’s a valid question. I’m going to guess that the articles outnumber the cars, but it’s closer than you think.

In all, there are approximately 40,000 all-electric vehicles in the U.S., according to John Addison, author and editor of the Clean Fleet Report.

Most of these are not sports cars, he said. Most are low-speed vehicles capped at 25 to 35 miles per hour that tool around on military bases, university campuses, and retirement homes. Vendors include Chrysler, Zenn Motor Company.

The U.S. Army has a program to obtain 4,000 neighborhood electric vehicles over the next three years. They will not be used in tactical situations, which really cuts down the opportunity to make a comedy staring Jack Black as the hapless green advocate in the military. Call it Private Green. (That’s all it takes to be a producer, people.)

But it is expected to cut down on gasoline consumption.