the ministry is also lobbying for 3.3 billion yen -lrb- $ 9.6 million -rrb- for the leasing of fuel supply facilities and for low-rate financing to encourage the purchase of some 1,500 low-pollution vehicles beginning in 1994 at an average cost of 4 million yen -lrb- $ 36,000 -rrb- each -lrb- for an electric vehicle -rrb- .