[snowman]

I once thought of making an electric dragster. I was considering using MHD and TNT to power it. Then I looked at gas and nitro methane. Forget the TNT it can't do it. Not even against gas.
No battery, and battery's need charging by something, can compete with gas, period. Electric cars went by the wayside in the 1920's, and they should remain buried, because they simply are a net loss to the environment as well as to simple transportation.

Again I am an EE and like electricity, electronics, but I am also a physicist and simple calculations show that batteries and electric cars are a total waste of resources, time, and are bad, very bad for the environment.

I predict that DIESEL engines will be the thing of the future. They will run clean, clean enough to be acceptable, they are powerful, they are the most efficient and they run on the least expensive and most available fuel, at least for the next 500 years. Diesel can be produced from Coal, the most abundant FUEL in the world.

The only, and I mean ONLY other hope is nuclear fusion. It is the ONLY fuel that can, long term, solve the overall energy problem. At least its possible, there are NO other possibilities that have even been identified, to date.