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Article: Electric car in the works for Whitehall
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- La Crosse Tribune
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- March 30, 2008
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WHITEHALL, Wis. - The city of Whitehall wants to go green with an electric vehicle, but the state is giving the city a red light to using it on some highways.
Whitehall, which has its own municipal electric utility, wants to promote the use of neighborhood electric, vehicles - beefed-up golf carts that meet federal safety standards for low-speed vehicles.
"The cost of energy to operate an NEV is about 40 to 50 cents a day," said City Administrator Lynn Johnson. "You can't even start a gasoline engine for that cost. We want to promote this as a viable option for transportation."
So the city decided to buy an NEV for about $12,000. from Columbia ParCar Corp., a Wisconsin company, to use for ...