Elec Monster/Truggy Class - Fighting a loosing battle

[wfdfiremedic]

Hey,

Interesting. I was in a Hobbytown the other day and the clerk asked me if I really like electric better than nitro. I replied yes, the high end brushless I like better. He sort of looked at me puzzled. I bet he has never even really been exposed to brushless in high power forms.

One factor I think that limits the transition to electric is the extreme start-up costs involved. With nitro, it seems the costs are just as high, but they come over a period of time. To begin with electric, you need the vehicle, charger, lipos, etc. The cost of all this can be pretty staggering.

Over on lstforums.com there were a bunch of people interested in the conversion of the LST to electric. However, once they see how much it will cost to actually do a nice conversion I think they become turned off by the cost. Also, most of these guys are accustomed to nitro runtime, which is basically unlimited to a point, so they would need to buy several lipos in order to reach that runtime. This means the cost increases even more. IMHO

-Chris