As everyone in Vic knows, the price of gas is getting ridiculous, $1.60 per litre at the moment. When I started driving, pertrol was $0.60.

Everyone is hurting, and as such there has been a lot of press about talk about electric/hybrid cars.

Would you buy one? Keep in mind that the cars make almost no noise at all, so no revving at the lights doing "chap laps" :)

I would never have thought it would enter my mind to buy one, but as it turns out, the cost is getting too much, and I think i might actually consider one for my next car.

Does anyone actually drive an electric? Are they any good?

Funny you've posted this cause i rid a scooter and i was thinking 'where are all the electric scooters?'. Like, making a scooter run on electricity (read: batteries) would be MUCH easier than cars .. yet i've not heard or read about it?

in summary: yes, i would buy an electric car over a petrol car, assuming i can afford it. I bet you $5 that the first 5 odd years these electric cars will be out of reach of the average person so we'll still be stuck with archaic petrol guzzlers and killing the planet.

*sigh*

Hi Goku,

Absolutely I would consider an electric car for sure. I'm not sure if you have heard but there is a "supercar" that is electric being developed by a small company in San Francisco named Tesla Motors. The Tesla Roadster is 100% electric and does 0-100km in about 3.9seconds. Im not sure about recharge time though. I know that some of the batteries on these cars take about 8hrs to fill, which is a big problem, and is one of the main reasons why i can't get one just yet. Currently it takes about 4 minutes to fill up a petrol based car vs 8 hrs for an electric. I know which one I would prefer.

The world is definitely going to be a better place when everyone's cars are electric though.

I heard another report on the news last night that petrol consumption is actually UP and is not decreasing. I wonder what price petrol has to hit before people driving less becomes a reality.

I was just talking about this on the weekend with a friend over dinner and he said he gets about 800km to a tank on a hatchback hybrid. I was shocked!!! Hearing this definitely made think twice about the price of petrol.