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Massive mine truck and a Baja off-road racer both find use for fuel cells

Enlarge / Anglo American and First Mode, among others, are converting a Komatsu 930E truck like this one to be powered by hydrogen fuel cells and batteries rather than diesel engines. (credit: Anglo American) At first glance, an open-pit platinum mine in South Africa and the Baja 1000 off-road race don’t have much in common […]

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Three Formula E motors and a DTM engine combine in the Audi RS Q e-tron

Audi Sport is trying something new in 2022 with an attempt at the particular Dakar Rally using this wild-looking creation. [credit: Audi Sport ] Audi’s DTM program—think typically the German equivalent of NASCAR—ended at the end of 2020, and 2021 is the German automaker’s final year in Formula E . But the investment that Audi […]

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Sand, sun, and electric off-road SUVs: Extreme E holds its first race

The Odyssey 21 of Mikaela Ahlin-Kottulinsky and Jenson Button, who are driving for the JBXE Extreme-E Team. Button is not the only F1 world champion to enter a team in Extreme E, but he is the only one to also strap in as a driver. [credit: Extreme E ] Traveling to threatened environments in order […]