Woohoo! I may be getting an electric car!

So, I just got a phone call saying I've been accepted into the Mini-E field trial, which means starting in April I could be driving an all-electric plug-in Mini for a year.

Unfortunately, it's an $850/month lease, plus they have to install a special outlet in my apartment (which my landlord may be alright with). It may entail me having to rent one of the garages from him as well, which would probably cost another $100/month.

Should I do it? Anyone want to help me get a fund-raiser going to help pay for it?

Fund-raiser, get Google AdSense for the blog/site - and pimp that.

They want you to blog about it, but I don't know if you'd be allowed to profit off of that. Kind of a tough choice to make when you have to commit to it before fund raising.

How's it going to affect your power bill?

do you use more or less then $600 a month in fuel?

10 grand a year for a lease on a car? What do you get out of this? If nothing other than being the first on the block to beta-test some new technology, I'd say no. Sorry for being such a buzzkill here, but when you boil it down to the facts, that is what it is.

You pay $10k (plus additional electric bill?!?!) = you get to beta test for a year.

At the end of the year, you are $10k lighter - thats all.

Yep, just forward your invite to Ed Bagley Jr.