I have to confess to not keeping up with new car trends. I never bought into the "you have to by a new vehicle every 3 years or less" thing. I bought new autos in 1979, 1986, 1992 and 2008. The  Volt seems more practical, unless you are talking about single occupant trips, in which case you might want to think even smaller / lighter.

I only buy new autos when I have to, most recently in 2008 when a scofflaw trying to do an illegal left turn out of Shaw Cable's Parking lot across 3 lanes of traffic reduced our 1992 Grand Voyager to write off value. 

I will have to consider vehicles such as the Chevy Volt, Bolt or SmartCar EV when we think about getting a new one, but that will be a few years off. For now 7 litres per 100 km / 3 litres per day for city driving keeps our fuel bill and carbon footprint down. 

The other annual direct fossil fuel item used to be topping up the 500 litre oil furnace tank at least twice a year, but that stopped when we switched to a heat pump in 2000.