Reminds me of the USS Albacore, now standing guard duty off the side of a road in Portsmouth NH. This ship was a proof of concept vehicle, diesel-electric propulsion but the first ship ever with the teardrop shape hull, now called the Albacore hull for obvious reasons. To fully explore the speed envelope, the batteries aboard were rapid-discharge silver zinc batteries. The Albacore set the submerged speed record at the time of 27 knots.Feh, how about an all-electric motorcycle, 0-60 in less than 1 second, right into a parked minivan:
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-harry