Do battery powered sports cars work and are they reliable?

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20. Electric cars actually have some advantages over cars with internal combustion engines.

Electric motors have a huge amount of torque for their weight, which means that if you goose the accelerator, your electric car's gonna take off like a rocket! Electric motors also provide lots of torque over a wiiiiiiide range of RPMs, from zero to very high speeds, so electric cars don't need transmissions - there's a big weight-saver.

Of course, there's the disadvantages - battery technology is still the bottleneck, and range suffers, especially if you're punching the throttle and hot-rodding the car, though recent years have seen enough advances to make electric cars viable. The batteries are still quite heavy, though the Tesla S mitigates that by putting them in a pan under the floor - still heavy, but the battery case adds to the rigidity of the car's frame, moves the center of gravity low, so the car actually performs decently well.