Re:$12k?! (Score 1)

Not only does that bring in price, but that's also more environmentally friendly because that car would have been scrapped (and recycled, sure, but there's still energy that was lost originally making it, recycling it, and making something new from it). It just sounded like he bought the truck for the conversion (it makes sense to have a small light truck--it's light and has storage room for batteries) when they said "including the cost of the truck". He might not have bought it when it was new, but unfortunately, we can't make any assumptions on whether or not he bought the truck for the conversion from the article, other than the author's "including the cost of the truck".