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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SDMF" data-source="post: 315550" data-attributes="member: 412"><p>I LOVE the idea of 100% Torque available from a dead stop.  Electric motors are fairly simple and do what they do with mind-numbing reliability.  Look @ electric trolling motors.  Shove 'em in the water and they spin along wherever you set them for years on end.  Batteries and control units are the weak link.  The motor itself almost never fails.</p><p></p><p>I'm not however going to turn a 2.5hr trip from Fargo to Bismarck with the boat in tow for an early Mo river spring bite, into a 5hr trip because I gotta charge the truck 2x on the way.  Not happinin'.</p><p></p><p>I wonder if one could use a small turbine engine to run essentially an alternator like they use a diesel motor on a train?  IIRC turbine engines are significantly more efficient than an internal combustion 4-stroke with much lower maint' as well?</p></blockquote><p></p>

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