Why Electric?

[wishmasstir]

i like the nitros more because of the realism you get while running them. with a temp guage i can run all day with my nitros, 150cc tanks get you 25 minutes nicely. whenever i'm bored with one of the nitros i pull out an electric one, i don't have any brushless ones yet so i can understand why you guys like electric better and i don't yet. its a pain to take 20 batteries with me and have them all charged up where i run. i don't take the trucks to a track that other guys race at since there isn't one closer than 100 miles from me... i take them to motorcross tracks and bmx tracks usually in the middle of the woods, strapped to the nerf bar on the quad...no plugs for the chargers out there.

[BrianG]

What I like about electric:

- Much less noise
- Ability to run indoors
- Less mess from Nitro
- Less maintenance
- Better torque
- No break in
- No glo-plugs to replace
- No trouble starting
- Less tinkering to get it right (I always seem to be adjusting the needles for the weather that day).
- Don't have to keep buying fuel.
- BL Motors generally last longer than Nitro engines and only require new bearings to rebuild, so are cheaper to rebuild when necessary.
- Require fewer servos and mechanical linkages (less things to go wrong).
- Having or not having reverse is a simple programming change.

When I got my Revo, I was really on the fence between the E-Maxx and the Revo because I really wanted electric, but the Revo was just too damn cool to pass up, so I got that :) Now that I'm working on my E-Revo, I'll have two Revos and the best of both worlds (in my opinion at least).