"Doctor Drivel" wrote in message
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The articles are about the future. The electric Mini gets 200 miles range
and outperforms a Porche.

What does 'outperforms' mean?

If it means that it goes faster I'm not interested. A Porche is an
extravagent status symbol which wouldn't do what we demand of our Laguna
Estate - which we use for fewer than 3,000 miles a year.

I think it might be some time before there will be an electric or dual
powered vehicle which will meet our demands which is sad, we'll probably be
dead by then. If there was one now we'd use it.

Our demands?

Capacity and being able to tow. Our lives would be less rich if we couldn't
do those things but we'd survive :-) A Porche in the drive would be
meaningless.

For the rest of our journeys we walk, cycle, scooter or bus.

Mary