Electric Vs. Gas

[Daimyo_Shi]

So the Eletric Vs. Gas has always puzzled me, I never played Dueltrack in it original form so I only familiar Gas from the Compendium Era onwards. Because of this I never been sure what gas engines were suppose to well. Acceleration is figured the same way [Yes I realize there are a couple modifications that push this beyond what Electric can do.] But the top speed formula heavily favours electric with equal power factors and weight.

Every car will also have a top speed, based on the following formula:
360 x power factors/(power factors + weight) for electric power plants,
or 240 x power factors/(power factors + weight) for internal
combustion engines, rounded down to a multiple of 2.5 mph.

Car Wars Compendium p. 73

The only advantages I can see is Varity of Engines, which may allow better Ratio with Cars and a sometime space advantage if you tweek you Gas tank and engine just right. There is a weight advantage 300 CID for sure but you really start trading spaces at that point instead. The Three Biggest have great top speeds but you trade space for that. maybe I just don't have the right experence with it. Thoughts and comment?