http://driving.ca/auto-shows/vancouver-auto-show/2015-vias-bigfoot-goes-electric 2015 VIAS: Bigfoot goes electric! By John G. Stirling [20150322]
[image https://postmediadriving.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/vias_bigfootnew.jpg This EV Bigfoot is powered by 36 Odyssey PC 1200 car batteries. It is making its Vancouver debut at the auto show, running March 24-29 at the downtown Convention Centre. PHOTO: Handout, Driving ] Zero-emission monster truck can stomp with the best of the them It’s not just the guys who love ‘em. Lots of ladies can out-vocalize the boys when monster trucks do their thing. Regardless of gender, there’s a little bit of “I’d sure wish I was driving that monster truck” in all of us. A few weeks ago here in Vancouver, monsters trucks were crushing poor little cars, with all the thrills and roll-overs we have all come to love and expect. And the smell. Wow. Fumes and dust. Quite the mixture. Just when you thought you’d seen the best performance ever, here comes another testosterone over-loaded driver and vehicle, as the show must go on. But this is a monster truck with a difference. This big boy is all electric. And it’s making its Vancouver debut at the auto show. It’s worth the price of admission just to get up close and personal to the new/old #20. “Great,” you’re muttering to yourself. “Electric. They’ve gone and ruined another vehicle. Won’t be able to jump over and crush a pebble, let alone a foreign import.” Hold on to your opinions folks, because this is one wicked vehicle. Remember Bigfoot. Well, it’s now received one heck of an extreme makeover. Bigfoot owners teamed up with Odyssey Battery, and Number 20 is now carrying around 36 Odyssey PC 1,200 car batteries. Stay with me here. Thirty of those batteries power the special, custom-built direct current electric motor that puts out 350 horses. Big deal, you say? Well that works out to be some 800 pound-feet of direct drive torque. This is not small potatoes in power. To deal with that torque they popped in a special transfer case that sends all that power to the one-off custom-built drive shaft, then on to the also special planetary axles. Voila. Now we’re moving. What about stopping, even if it’s inside a stadium? The math-minded will recall that six batteries are not being used for power. Yep. Those puppies are hooked up to power the steering and the braking. Internal wet disc brakes do the stopping job. More numbers? (Careful. There may be a test at the end of this column.) The whole battery package weighs in at 625 kg. That figure and the whole monster truck hit the stadium floor at just under 5,000 kg. The body is a special fiberglass Super Duty design, bolted down on top of a Bigfoot racing chassis. The wheels are 25-inch steel, and around them are wrapped very big and bloated 66 inch Firestone tires. What’s keeping them on the ground, at least while Bigfoot is standing still, are eight nitrogen charged monster stuck racing shocks. Bigfoot #20 will never die during a show. That sucker can go, non-stop for at least 20 minutes, and I’ll bet by that time, you might have forgotten just how powerful and also how different it sounds. You’ll still hear the crushing metal. If they forgot to take out any glass, it will be blasted out of the wreck in no short order. Batteries are not holding back any performance power from this new and improved Electric Bigfoot #20 This is the real deal. Electric. Powerful. Very Wicked. Guaranteed to give you even more thrills than the “other” now, old fashioned monster trucks. I’ve been converted. Besides, I’ve always liked the quiet powerful types. [© driving.ca] ... vancouverinternationalautoshow.com 2015 Vancouver International Auto Show (VIAS) 3/24-29 [dated] http://www.thebatteryshow.com/media/news/2014/08/12/electric-odyssey-battery-bigfoot-20-monster-truck-dominates-the-battery-show/ Electric Odyssey Battery Bigfoot #20 Monster Truck Dominates The Battery Show Aug 12, 2014 — the Odyssey Battery Bigfoot #20 Monster Truck, the world’s first and only all electric-powered vehicle of its kind ... http://www.thebatteryshow.com/assets/gallery/19/629.jpg ... [videos BIGFOOT #20's 1st Event Appearance - YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFoWHMylA0I Feb 13, 2013 - 3 min - Uploaded by bigfootoriginal The world's first electric, battery-powered monster truck, BIGFOOT #20, made its first event ... BIGFOOT #20 - First Electric Monster Truck Car Crush - YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U41fJ-pd2vE Nov 8, 2012 - 3 min - Uploaded by bigfootoriginal Here are some highlights of BIGFOOT #20 doing the first ever electric monster truck car crush ... ] ... http://www.gizmag.com/bigfoot-monster-truck-goes-electric/25484/ BIGFOOT monster truck goes electric By C.C. Weiss December 17, 2012 ... BIGFOOT Number 20 uses only battery power to wreak havoc on the junkyard. http://images.gizmag.com/gallery_lrg/bigfootev.jpg ... https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151301747576873.526125.113896871872&type=3 BIGFOOT #20, the world's first electric monster truck! By BIGFOOT 4X4, INC. [2014] ... http://monstertruck.wikia.com/wiki/Bigfoot History: Bigfoot was created in 1975. It was [originally] Bob Chandler's 4x4 pickup truck. In 1979, Bigfoot became a common sight at truck and tractor pulls. In 1981, Bigfoot [received] much attention from a car crush at the Pontiac Silverdome. 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