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Yeah, some electric cars are cool. The Telsa’s pretty damn rapid, but when it comes to being the king of awesome battery-driven cars, this insane electric monster truck literally destroys the competition.
Without the roar of that horrendously massive petrol engine normally at the heart of the thing, you’ll have more appreciation for the twisting and crushing of metal. You’ll be able to truly appreciate the carnage in front of you, plus, it’s basically saving the planet, one petrol-guzzling crushed car at a time. [YouTube via Green Car Reports via Jalopnik]
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So does that use one electic motor and then conventional diffs/props in the drivetrain? I’d have thought a motor for each wheel would be better?
Why would that be better? Have you ever seen a monster truck show / competition? Those things jump and bounce around so munch that a motor driving each wheel should sheer or bend the rotor shaft after a single jump, ignoring how you’d mount the motors at the end of the axles. No, the electric one ( clearly ) uses a conventional drive train & a single electric motor mounted in the chassis ( it’s more like an electric conversion vs a ground-up electric vehicle ), far less design and engineering work required and safer for the motor.
(Psst Sam – Telsa?)
Tesla make electric sports cars.
http://youtu.be/fRU95s_lXOQ
Yes, but who the hell is TELSA?
I dunno, didn’t he do teleporting magic tricks that made clones? I’m sure I saw that in a documentary somewhere.
Hummm I gess ths thing makes a brilliant ‘spokesmachine’ of environmental awareness for audiences like the people in ‘Merica.
Not so much in Europe of course but surely effective in ‘Merica.
WTF!
All they need to do now is add a remote control