The electric vehicle also has to be viable out here in the looooooong distances and mountains. It must tow a small trailer (such as we use for our bookwagon -- 6' high x 5' wide x 8' long) on Interstate grades at no less than 10 mph under the speed limit.

It's 50 miles each way to the nearest Barnes & Noble bookstore, so a vehicle that gets 40 miles on a charge isn't going to do me a lot of good, except for exercise.