Honestly… my original post (#2) commenced with “My Mate Peter won’t agree but…”. Then I thought nah, there’s no mention of solar and only a casual reference to electric vehicles so he won’t find this one, and why confuse all our casual flat-chatters with oblique in-house references such as the one that I proposed, so I deleted it.
You’re amazing Peter – you never fail to add-value to discussions here especially (like all of us) around your pet topics, but for the record, when reviewing the Mitsubishi iMiEV, one of our largest motoring organisations concluded that “compared with a similar petrol powered small car, the MiEV is $30k more expensive, and a $30k price/$700 savings per year = 43 years to make up the difference in price (not counting finance, opportunity costs, etc)”.
Anyway, back to refurbishing my 1987 Jaguar Sovereign with that wonderful 5.3 litre HE (“high efficiency”) V12 engine, with its Lucas electronics that could probably power a iMiEV on its own.