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Old 12-15-2008, 10:39 PM   #7
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Electric motors are a hella lot more powerful than internal combustion engines. You could get some serious torque out of such a thing. If they weren't so expensive I would want one for the winter when I'm not driving my Camaro.

But it better be a GM product.
Electric motors are capable of producing so much more torque right at the throttle unlike an internal combustion engine where the energy must endure travel. They are damn expensive to make, though. But so are all things where the technology is in its genesis stages.
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