Hi all - first time poster (but very long time follower of Tesla)
Anyway - the Outlander has finally arrived down under in Australia (large advertising campaign on normal TV and pay TV) so I thought I would grab the chance to test drive it a couple of days ago. I had to drive 100kms from my home to my nearest dealer. Overall I thought it was very good to drive - it was my first time driving a car under electric propulsion and I got the 50km from the battery (as claimed). I took the top spec 'Aspire' version for a drive for around 90 minutes. I can now see why they are quite popular in Europe and Japan other than just the incentives.
Mitsi has priced it pretty aggressively here in Oz too - The top of range spec costs around the same as their top spec diesel variant. Our only other real PHEV option here is the Volt but they are way overpriced for what you get - no wonder they've barely sold any locally. We have no real government monetary incentives either unlike a lot of other countries. The Volt is nearly AUD$65k here and the the two variants of Outlander PHEV are AUD$50k and $55k and are much better equipped and certainly a more practical vehicle with the most notable features - 4 vs 5 seats - and more storage. Here in Australia, diesel costs around 5-10% more than regular unleaded so this type of car makes the diesel variant of the same car somewhat redundant as there is no real fuel economy gain.
