Hi,
Now that I've been here for a few months, I'm starting to see a trend when new members start asking questions. There's a lot of prose bandied about in response, interspersed with somewhat inconsistent numbers and comments across responses, sometimes followed at some point by the original question-asker throwing up their hands in confusion/disgust and walking away without a very high opinion of electric drives.
I would strongly suggest that a different approach be tried to at least eliminate a lot of unnecessary and redundant verbiage, and get the question-asker focused on their needs straight off, so that lifecycle costs between the various alternatives can be compared, at least at the same kind of fruit level, if not precisely the same variety/species (instead of trying to compare fruit with rocks).
I haven't looked deeply at the Files/Links sections here to see if someone has already provided anything like what I'm about to describe, but, it's too bad that computers can't automatically perform lifecycle cost calculations in response to user-specified values for all of the various criteria that have been discussed ad nauseum in posts here. Oh, wait, computers _can_ perform such calculations ... If no one has provided something like this, I'll go ahead and produce either a spreadsheet, or, even better, an interactive web page that could accept the appropriate input values, and produce the associated component and lifecycle costs, perhaps even generating a shopping list of the appropriate components, complete with links to sources. If anyone wants to help, let's get started.
Then again, like comedian Dennis Miller says, "Now, I don't want to get off on a rant here, but, of course, that's just my opinion. I could be wrong."
All the Best,
Jim
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