The University of Wisconsin wants to know if electric is the way of the future for its fleet of vehicles. The campus’s fleet now includes four plug-in vehicles, averaging a cost of about $20,000 each. A couple were ordered back in December; one just came in two weeks ago.
We got a look at one of those today. UW’s fleet manager Jim Bogan said the university bought them as a way to help the campus reduce emissions by 20-percent by the year 2010.
They’re smaller than traditional cars, and can’t drive faster than 25 miles per hour. One has been earmarked to help with maintenance duties along UW’s lakeshore preserve, where Bogan said it made sense to place a vehicle that doesn’t emit fumes