OK, I am suspicious as to the $1.14. Give me the calculations on that and also the source. What is the cost of electricity per KW to calculate that. What are your test results that show gallon to Kw equivalent? What car is it that uses so little electricity? How much is electricity going up? What electrical taxes are you going to have to charge for us to repair your roads?
Articles like this create more questions than they answer.
And is this assuming Southern California temps, or up north here, where all winter you will have to run a kilowatt-sucking electric heater in the car?
With a combustion engine you are using the waste heat of combustion to warm the cabin, with no extra energy draw. Not sure how an electric can even come close to that.