They swapped in a Tesla Model S powertrain.
When you think of an electric vehicle, you likely think of the ubiquitous Tesla, making its way on a daily commute. Maybe you think of a luxury Lucid Air cutting through the air with nearly no drag on a canyon road. A handful of you might picture a Rivian R1T toddling down a smooth dirt road.
After that section, the same cars must conquer rock trails that must be seen to be believed. Boulders as big as Smart cars. Hills at an angle that would make your geometry teacher weep. This is rock crawling at its finest, except it’s done at speed with plenty of rigs rolling over — or climbing over each other. It is complete and utter chaos, a combination of Burning Man and Mad Max.As unlikely as it may seem, this isn’t the first time an electric rig has raced out here.
The addition of a low range kind of blows my mind. In a gas-powered machine, low range is used to ensure high levels of torque at low engine rpm. If that torque is right there under your foot, available instantly, why add the weight and complexity of a low range? Keith says it’s to keep the motor from generating too much heat.
When the sun rose on February 10th, the TesTen made its way to staging. It would be starting last out of 155 entries, tasked with completing 95 miles of desert racing and 48 miles in the rocks for 143 miles of the craziest racing on the planet. And they didn’t even know how far they could go on a single charge.
King of the Hammers is a no-chase race. Competitors can not accept outside help unless in a designated pit area, so Melissa had one choice. She had to run back to the main pits and get the laptop. It took her two hours, but they were able to reboot the system and were on their way again.Even after taking it slow for the first 25 miles, No. 2412 arrived at the first pit area with a 25 percent state of charge.
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