To put that figure in perspective, a Karma driver with a 40-mile commute who starts each day with a full battery charge will only need to visit the gas station about every 1, 000 miles and would use just 9 gallons of gasoline per month.
Instead of just making a tech choice, where only programmers could fiddle with it, we could also from a very design perspectivefigure out what the player wanted to do, what the player wanted to say, and actually have that option.