France’s Gaussin is creating a variety of hydrogen-electric business autos, and to show the expertise the corporate will enter one specifically developed for racing within the 2022 Dakar Rally.
The model developed for the Dakar is called the H2 Racing Truck, and it will likely be entered in a brand new various power class being launched within the 2022 rally.
The truck is powered by a 402-hp electrical motor at every axle. There is a hydrogen gasoline cell that usually generates the electrical energy to energy the motors, although throughout excessive masses the motors may also draw electrical energy from an 82-kilowatt-hour battery. Storage tanks can maintain a most 176 kilos of hydrogen.
Gaussin hydrogen-electric vehicles
Gaussin quotes a prime pace of 87 mph and a variety, in race circumstances, of 155 miles. There’ll doubtless be assist autos to maintain the H2 Racing Truck topped up for longer levels of the Dakar Rally. At street-legal speeds, Gaussin claims the truck ought to cowl near 500 miles on a fill of hydrogen and a full cost of the battery.
Impressively, Gaussin plans to promote a model of the H2 Racing Truck for the highway. It is one in every of 5 hydrogen-electric vehicles the corporate plans to market, all of them designed by Pininfarina. The others are designed for items transportation, building and mining, and one is being developed with full self-driving functionality.
The 2022 Dakar Rally will run by means of the deserts of Saudi Arabia in January. Additionally set to compete can be Audi with its bespoke RS Q E-Tron battery-electric SUV.
