This makes me appreciate even more the advantages electrical motors have over ICEs. If you build a naive version of an ICE, it will have lousy performance, at

This makes me appreciate even more the advantages electrical motors have over ICEs. If you build a naive version of an ICE, it will have lousy performance, at best. It might not even operate without a lit of mechanical tricks and tweaks. An electrical engine, however, can be built simply and still get decent, if not great, performance. The complexity of ICEs really is a huge disadvantage and there is no turning back.