If you’re still unsure about whether electric vehicles can meet your daily driving needs, you’ll soon be able to get personalized answers based on your own individual driving patterns. Research scientist Samveg Saxena of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory says that the app, called MyGreenCar, uses a vehicle-to-grid simulator to provide fuel economy estimates for drivers in any vehicle.

"If you were making exactly the same trips that you wanted to make that you were making in your current vehicle, what would happen if you were driving an electric vehicle instead? And through the "MyGreenCar" tool that we have coming up soon, we'll be able to give people the individual ability using their smartphones to record how they're driving, how they're using whatever vehicle they have right now. And then give them a personalized answer, would whatever vehicle they're looking at buying for their next vehicle meet their needs?"

Saxena says that one of the goals of the app is to help drivers to understand the benefits of clean vehicles.

"Electric vehicles go a long way in mitigating these global challenges and these urban challenges."