[snowman]

An electric motor will always beat any ICE power plant. No question there. Total torque off the line. Only problem is the battery. Can't hack it for more than a few seconds, but it will always beat anything else in the quarter mile.

I once toyed with the idea of using TNT and an MHD generator to power an electric dragster. Problem is that nitro methane or just plain gas has more energy density than needed to beat the TNT powered machine. Damn ICE power plant is very hard to beat!!! ( but I bet the TNT one would be much cooler, as in rad or bitc..en).