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Having spent 4 years of my life learning about electricity in engineering school, one of the tortures of graduation was learning everything that you never wanted to know about electric motors. Suffice it to say that you can wind an electric motor in a fashion to blow away just about any fossil fuel motor in existance today in the 1/4 mile. If you created a car with a battery, a power control system and a motor on each wheel, and the right combination of know how, you would be pushing 300 MPH in the 1/4. The car would be very very light in comparison to any other car since you would have no drivetrain other than cables and a battery only big enough to go 1/4 mile.
Is that a practical every day car? No way! But, don't underestimate electric motors for performance. You can do amazing things with them, as the industrial world already knows.
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