Better roads and transport has been a core focus of the NRMA since it was founded in 1920, but maybe it and Bill should have done their homework before making the huge call on electric vehicles that haven't exactly hit a chord with buyers.

In NSW last year there was a total of only 443 electric passenger cars registered out of 189,434 on Roads and Maritime Service books. There were four electric tradies' utes out of 61,812 registered and only one off-roader out of 101,736 four-wheel-drives.

Last year 50,387 vehicles were registered in Orange and only three of them were electric.

Local councils would no doubt be stuck with putting in charging stations but you'd need billions of dollars worth of them because most electric vehicles on the market are only capable of around 160 kilometres before they need to be recharged.

And thousands of electric cars would send the power network into meltdown and more billions would have to be spent to upgrade it.

The exception is the Tesla Model S, which can go more than 600 kilometres.

And then where's all the extra electricity going to come from with governments mad on shutting down power stations?

The batteries have a warranty which covers them for eight years, and a full charge can take nine hours, although that would only apply when the battery has been drained completely.

But the lithium-ion batteries can explode, going off in a big way with a spray of molten lithium metal and a thick, acrid cloud of choking toxic gases like carbon monoxide, hydrogen fluoride and particulates of oxides of nickel, aluminium, copper, and cobalt according to a Tesla emergency response guide.

The resultant fires are very difficult to put out and, in fact, it takes at least 9,000 litres of water to do it.

So, what do you think about electric cars?

A MEDIA review of Sydney public and private school newsletters sent to parents found lots of spelling mistakes like collegues, seperate and calender.

Other words beyond the spelling capacity of the school principals and teachers were neccessary (necessary), fourty (forty), honourary (honorary) and occured (occurred).

But then English is a strange language, designed to confuse foreigners like the imaginary Nino Culotta, the Italian immigrant in John O'Grady's book, They're a Weird Mob, and his attempts to understand English as spoken by Australians.

Spelling is all over the place and there's no rules to work it out other than things we were taught in second class like 'i' usually comes before 'e' except after 'c' or when it's pronounced like 'a' as in neighbour and weigh or 'e' as in their and heir.

And the word 'neighbour', for example, uses a silent 'gh' as well as 'ei' sounded as 'a'. Shouldn't it be just 'naybor'.

What about the silent 'n' in column. What about 'colum'?

It's all very confusing, ain't it? Obviously it's all too much for some of our schools.