B. If an agency requests a motor vehicle from the state motor vehicle fleet, the agency shall be assigned a neighborhood electric vehicle unless the agency demonstrates to the department that the neighborhood electric vehicle will not meet the needs of the agency because the new motor vehicle will be doing any of the following:

1. 1. Operating on a street with a posted speed limit that exceeds thirty-five miles per hour.
2. 2. Carrying a load that exceeds one thousand five hundred pounds.
3. 3. Transporting more than six persons.