Hoovey689

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Watch the world's first all-electric monster truck quietly crush some cars

One of the best parts about watching a monster truck show is hearing (and feeling) the engines roar to life, but one of the sport's most iconic trucks is proving that car-crushing fun doesn't have to involve burning even a drop of gasoline (or alcohol, as the case may be). Odyssey Battery and Bigfoot have teamed up to create what they are claiming to be the world's first electric monster truck.

EnerSys, parent company of Odyssey Battery, supplied 36 drycell batteries (upgraded versions of a standard car battery) to provide juice to a specially designed motor that produces 350 horsepower and 850 pound-feet of torque – far less than the 1,000+ hp produced by today's average monster truck. Instead of roaring to life, the electric Bigfoot No. 20 quietly whirs around the parking, which in the video makes it sound like a life-sized Power Wheels, before laying waste to a couple of down-and-out Ford Taurus sedans. Like the monster trucks you can see at just about any stadium around the country, this Bigfoot has tires that make crushing cars easy and four-wheel steering for better maneuverability. In all, the truck's 36 batteries add an extra 1,375 pounds, and while the system includes on-board battery chargers, there is no word on how long such a job would take.


http://www.autoblog.com/2012/12/14/w...quietly-crush/

cino

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Sounds like RC car. Like it.

rkyat

needs more roar!

Still pretty cool tho

SC400slide

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Very cool! The Taurus deserves it.

Hoovey689

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I disagree. The Taurus changed the segment and proved cars don't have to be boxy

SC400slide

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Taurus's are basic transportation. Rather see one of these get smashed than a Peugeot. One of my friends have one and it strands them a lot. It's even an 07. You go your way and I go mine.

CK6Speed

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Kind of lack luster for me. When you are that big it is easy to crush cars no matter what is powering the monster truck. However, when I see a big bad monster truck I kind of want to hear the obnoxiously loud roar of the exhausts, the see the big engine that drinks gas like water, see the smoke pouring out of the exhausts. In other words having a green electric monster truck just isn't the same.

Hoovey689

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A hybrid diesel would be interesting..

Brian@Vossen

I saw "bigfoot" and went back like 25 years

CDJones

Agree with Hoovey on this one. It may not be a car you would buy now but it was a game changer in the mid/full size car segment.