Let's address some of the big issues of this or any time. Yes, I'm talking about the firestorm that erupted around the globe following our discussion on electric cars.

Look I've had distraught phone calls, private meetings, emails, texts and Tinders from worried petro-owners. Friends and readers let me make it clear, you don't have to sell your Lambo/Feezer/Porker/Proton/Jag now. The current Morrison government won't be sending the repo police around to collect your car and replace it with a Tesla anytime soon.

Let's drill down and expose the truth about electric by going to the true facts. Fortunately, we have definitive real-life research from the leading scientific journal in the US, Car and Driver. Four years ago, C&D staged a multi-state enduro to find out if today's automotive pioneer, the Tesla Model S, could outrun its predecessor, the 1915 Ford Model T.

Think about it. The Model T's flathead 8-valve inline-four, iron block and head, pumps out a menacing 16kW, hitting 80km/h (very close to top speed) in a blistering 26 seconds. The Musk Muscle Machine's AC permanent-magnet whatever pumps out an electrifying 310kW getting to 80km/h about 23 seconds faster than the T.

You wouldn't have to be the sharpest tool in the shed to understand that over the 1100km from the Model T Automotive Heritage Complex on Detroit's Piquette Street, to electrical pioneer Nikola Tesla's old Wardenclyffe laboratory in Shoreham, New York, the Tesla might have a slight advantage given its top speed is 215km/h, or 135km/h quicker. But no. After 23 hours the Tesla beat the T by only an hour. There you have it, readers and scientists. Electric cars have no future. They can hardly beat a 105-year-old petrol guzzler.

Talking of New York, up at Sleepy Hollow, Jim and son Jesse Glickenhaus are turning out real cars. The red 600kW street legal hypercar Jim and Jesse are entering for this year's Le Mans. If that doesn't stir feelings long forgotten in you, you're probably a member of the National Party.

Jim says: "A car made in America hasn't won first overall at Le Mans since the Ford GT in 1967. We think it's time an American team wins again."

And autonomous cars? Amir Efrati from The Information was telling me that the punters trying to inflict self-driving cars on the known world have so far burnt $16bn with no result. While Alphabet's Waymo, GM's Cruise, Uber, Apple, Baidu, Ford and Toyota have all thrown dollars at it, my guess is only Ford and GM have a chance. How much chance? Zip.