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If you need to buy something new to save gas, I think the Honda Civic hatchback (or whatever it's called), that has a small four cylinder with a water cooled turbo is hard to beat. A friend of mine bought one a year or so ago as his retirement car and he loves it. It has plenty of power and he just averaged 47 mpg driving from here to Illinois and back. I don't think EVs are ready for primetime yet so if I was buying new, with fuel efficiency in mind, the Honda turbo is what I would get. I don't think it would pollute much more than an EV. This is what the exhaust pipe on an EV looks like.

In the last generation of the Chevy Cavalier, there was a CNG option available. Pretty neat little car for a daily commuter. Economical and for the working man.

There was also an interesting Buick concept car that hit the media recently. The Wildcat. I think CNG vehicles would be more easily implemented. They emit way lower emissions than gasoline cars, natural gas is cheaper per unit than gas also. Electric cars are great for city driving but not for people driving long distances or people out in the "country." I personally drive 40 miles round trip a day and it could work for me but I'm not dropping $50,000 on a Tesla anytime soon and I suspect the majority won't either. It's an elite symbol currently. Luckily gas has come down a bit in the last few weeks. The worst thing about electric cars is the mining for nickel and lithium. Mountains will literally be leveled to extract these resources from the Earth. How's that green?

Thanks for posting the video.