Nothing against nimh, but my limited experience with them was not good. I had just about every problem you can have with nimhs. I was not using the best cells, but they could barely get a rustler moving, with a MM, 5000kv feigao s can and 8 cells. Gearing was not far off stock, and the nimhs were about to liquefy they were so hot... Not to say I have not have lipo issues, but those went away after I sold most of the maxamps packs i had, go figure