Are you considering buying a plug-in vehicle, but aren’t sure if it’s meant for you? As with everything else these days, now there’s an app for that.

The Virtual Vehicle Company offers potential owners a look at how “buying an advanced vehicle would affect their wallet, carbon footprint, and lifestyle and recommends the best fit vehicle.”

The program, which is still in beta, uses the embedded GPS feature on your smart phone to see all the routes you’ve traveled on through the past couple of days and gives you illustrations on how a plug-in vehicle would have performed on the same roads. Basic questions like how long the battery would have made it or how much money you would have saved are all answered as well. The app will even suggest what kind of car you should buy (hybrid, plug-in, etc.)

The great part about this app is that you have to do very little. The app comes on as soon as you hit the road.

Hybrid, plug-in hybrid, and electric vehicles are clearly the way of the future. But consumers are reluctant to make the switch largely because of range anxiety and cost. This app might help calm some of those fears.

Virtual Vehicle Company is hoping to eventually send out the aggregated drivers’ data to city governments and utility companies to tell them when and where charging is likely to occur and “better prepare to support plug-in vehicles in their community,” according to their website.

If you are an iPhone user and want to be one of the beta testers for this startup email (beta AT vevdrive.com) to get involved.

Neither one of us owns a car, but we’d love to hear what you think.