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Originally Posted by huntian
Once upon a time back in the 90s, electric cars were being produced and they were the sh!t. They could pull off killer burnouts, and qtr mile times not that much slower (and in some cases, faster) than a stock WRX... The power they put out was incredible. Unfortunately for pretty much everyone, the oil companies and the US government had a lot to do with the quick ending of this fast growing environmentally friendly alternative to petrol cars. If you're interested, or think I'm bullshitting, check out doco called "Who Killed the Electric Car?" (most decent video stores would have it)... Pretty crazy what can happen if you have enough money.
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That's true...that not only happened with the electric car but a few years ago australian and a french (i think) fella came up with an engine which runs on compressed air. It proved to be 3 times as efficient as the internal combustion engine (1 litre petrol engine produces X kW, 1 litre compressed air engine produced 3X). The technology was bought soon after by nobody else but Shell