With all this deep ice I'm curious as to how guys are finding their electric augers in these conditions.  I've spent the last little bit investigating what I can in the search for a new auger but to be honest even with guys like Gord Pyzer singing the praises of the electric revolution I wasn't convinced and stuck with the ol gas burner.  To be honest they look slow and with all this ice I feel this is a good time to see how they really handle the heavy load fighting 3' of ice with 3' worth of cuttings to bring up. 
          I'd really like to believe and would love to add an electric auger in the future especially if it could get the wife to cut a hole or two.  (The thought of that makes me feel funny hehe).  But it's gotta make sense.

Depends on your style of fishing. If you fish out of your vehicle a lot and are able to keep your equipment warm and a couple batteries on hand they are ok, and if you fish in the south a lot where the ice tends to be thinner I would say you can get by with an electric. A friend of of mine that I fish with a lot, bought one this year with his son. They paid around $800 for the unit and are very disappointed. Most of their fishing is done off quads and snow machine, long days out on the ice in the cold. This winter being a colder winter really brought out the problems with the batteries. Twice they were unable to finnish their days do to the batteries running out and by that I mean they were done just after lunch. These guys are hard core guys that will run and gun to find fish, 50 holes in a day in 3' of ice is not uncommon for them. So like I say, depends on your style, for me and my style they are out of the question. Not worth the price cause you still need a gas one at home for the long run days.

 Walleye is right ....I bought the only 4 strk available
    at the time ....great no stink but pretty plasticy...
   Pretty well all the time in the south I'm feet from
   the truck ....but if I was back countrying ....
    battery ?... I didn't even know Jiffy made a 4 strk .
     Sounds good !

For myself if I was interested in an electric I would look at getting set up with an adapter and a good drill. Even if you had to buy the drill at say $200 the adaptors are $90 and a hand auger if you didn't have one at $60 you are money ahead, and you have a darn good cordless drill when auger not in use. 

           That's definately another idea I wouldn't be opposed to Axe.  What does a drill like that draw for amperage?

           I've looked into some of the augers that are designed to run off a drill and I feel the best options are either the nils or the k drill with the k drill most likely getting the nod.  Pretty big Vexilar fan and I know they don't back junk.