Here’s a good example of the reason I have comments switched off on this site.
In that last article (about the Nissan Leaf), I said that the cost of a new set of batteries (approximately £18,000) was enough to buy THREE new Vauxhall Corsas.
Here’s a copy of the email I just received:
You need to go and check out the price of vauxhall corsas! If your (sic) going to type crap at least try and get close to the truth. LIAR
Yes, he’s quite right. The cheapest price for a new Corsa I could find anywhere – admittedly, just by Googling it - was £6,967. Of course, I’m not talking about a full-on pratmobile with blacked out windows, big-mouth exhaust, and low profile alloys, or anything like that. Just a bog-standard trainee pratmobile.
So allow me to correct that previous comparison statement I made and put it in terms the hard of thinking can understand.
A new set of batteries for a Nissan Leaf costs around £18,000 – you could buy 2.5836084398 new Corsas for that. So that’s 2.6 Corsas, and not 3.0 whole ones like I said.
Not quite the same flowing comparison, is it? But I’m sure Steve – the Sky internet user from the Great Malvern/Telford area, who likes to call people liars - feels much better now.