Man there is some false information about electrics in this thread, amazing the rc community still can't consider the two even. First off, 5 minute runtimes, lol, that might have been true in 1987 when you guys were running Tamiya Grasshoppers, but today we have 12,000 mah batteries which can give a good 1-3 hours depending on how you drive. I also find it funny you guys are still saying nitro gets better run time, thats a completely false statement. The average nitro's runtime is 15 minutes, where the average battery pack runtime is 25 minutes. Granted you can REFILL faster, but re-filling would mean your replinishing the source of power, which would be the equivelant of me hooking up a fresh battery. Neither extend runtime, as runtime is the time it takes for your source of power to operate continuously before a replinishment of energy is required.