LA to Vegas for $12

Ecorazzi caught onto this earlier this month, but Yahoo featured it on their homepage this evening: "The gas-hungry SUV gets a green makeover with veteran electric driver, Ed Begley, Jr."

In the video featured on Yahoo, Begly shares his electric car history - he's been driving 'em since the '70s because he didn't like the LA smog, and he's been plugging and driving ever since. He showed off a new electric SUV and then told the reporter that his trip from Los Angeles to Las Vegas (where the video peeps caught up with Begly) was a mere $12 - not bad for the electric car that was once thought to be extinct....

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