ok electric can be as ffast in stock trim with good batteries. my stock e-zilla with gp3700's can pull my well tuned savage x off the line. the x pulls it down on high end but only by a few miles per hour. the big downside to electric is charge times. at 4amps it takes like an hour, atleast, to fully charge them. nitro needs to be broken in and tuned properly . and maintained when something breaks. both will break but nitro will seem morehigh maintenance. nitro sounds cool and is just nasty where as electric is silent and morecontrolled. nitro typically has more options. your choices for electric are the e-zilla and e-maxx.