![Petersburg resident Gerry Herbrandson says he pays less than two cents a mile driving his "Miles" electric car around town.](https://{$dbname}.org/modules/local_news/media/pictures/img_0141-TN.jpg)
PETERSBURG, ALASKA Some of the first all-electric, low-speed vehicles in the state are turning heads as they quietly pass by on the streets of Petersburg. Local residents have already brought quiet and efficient gas-and-electric hybrid technology to Mitkof Island, but resident Gerry Herbrandson this spring shipped eight low-speed “Miles” electric cars to town. He has been driving around in the third low-speed electric vehicle licensed in the state and Herbrandson plans to sell the other seven mini-vans. Joe Viechnicki went with Herbrandson for a test ride around the streets of Petersburg