All electric power plant ? Pros / cons

[tcarlson]

I'm want to understand the current thinking of using an electric motor in a Factory 5 car.

A quick search turned up the 33 Hot Rod which seemed impressive in the torque numbers verbally stated in the short video.

What do you see are the pros and cons?

[Bob Cowan]

As I see it, there's two big problems with an all electric drive train in any vehicle. First, the batteries don't last. in 3-4 years you'll have to replace all the batteries. And they are not cheap. Second, the range is quite limited. Generally somewhere around 100 miles or so.

If I could afford another car, I would like to have an electric Coupe for the race track. I think that would be a lot of fun.