[ROCKLOBSTER]

Electric cars...if you do an energy balance, batteries are not a good choice. You loose efficiency changing the energy to electricity, and the charge to output. You can use other sources than liquid fuel, so there is some value in that, but overall it is not efficient.

Ska-rew the batteries.

There is some genius in the electric drive car, but it's surely not the battery packs....it's the electric propulsion...with electric motors replacing the transmission, transfer case, differentials and brakes.

Build a small displacement/HO powerplant and replace most of the batteries with super-capacitors, and you may well have something.

Oh yeah...and make it look HOT!

[Elsie]

Build a small displacement/HO powerplant and replace most of the batteries with super-capacitors, and you may well have something.

Izzat an oxymoron?

[redgolum]

That isn’t a free lunch either. It takes more energy to charge than to run it straight off the engine.

The Three Laws of Thermodynamics are a real pain.

Now, it DOES give you some benefits to go with a servo drive train.