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After marking their debut in 2023, making history, and becoming the first truck to complete the entire route of a Dakar edition with this alternative energy system, the team is back this year for the Mission 1000!
Discover the mixed hydrogen-bio diesel fuel system, the development of the system through EVARM, the performance of the engine...

Meeting Jordi Juvanteny, José Luis Criado, and Xavier Ribas, these old Dakar rockers, pioneers in alternative energies, ready to keep on fighting in Mission 1000!
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00:00 Hello, welcome to Evar, where we have our hydrogen-powered truck that will race in the
00:07 Dakar Future Mission 1000.
00:09 Do you want to discover the beast?
00:11 Ok, come with me.
00:12 Do you want me to repeat?
00:41 I'm Jordi Jovanteñ, I'm the driver of the truck behind me.
00:46 I'm Xavi Arribas, I'm the director of Evar, I'm also co-pilot.
00:50 For me, this is the 32.
00:51 We're going to try to make it cleaner than the others.
00:56 The idea was to start using this hydrogen, converting the truck and make it possible
01:00 to make a greener race.
01:03 Our team, we have engineers and technicians which are here in Spain, and then with us
01:19 will be four or five people.
01:20 So every night when we arrive to the Vivac, we will review the truck, we will make our
01:25 checks, we will refill hydrogen.
01:27 So it's a combination of both worlds.
01:29 We need each other and I believe we can do a very good Dakar.
01:40 We separate oxygen and hydrogen from the water using a small hydrolyzer.
01:46 The good point with hydrogen is we can obtain the energy from renewable sources like this
01:53 photovoltaic source or for example with green, windy mills.
02:00 With time, it will be demonstrated that hydrogen is a completely sustainable fuel because water
02:08 is everywhere and the sun is everywhere.
02:12 This hydrogen is compressed at 350 bar in different carbon fiber tanks.
02:21 Then we reduce this pressure between 80 to 50 bar and we inject this hydrogen which is
02:26 free of carbon inside the combustion chamber of the engine.
02:33 Only in one kilo of hydrogen you have much more energy than one kilo of diesel.
02:38 This is more than three times.
02:40 With these small volumes we can store a lot of energy.
02:43 One of the main conditions to face this Dakar was that at least we had the same power
02:52 as we have with the normal truck.
02:54 The engine behaves practically the same.
02:57 There are some small changes that we are going to improve this year and with the same benefits,
03:01 therefore, we are going to face a Dakar as usual, consuming much less fossil fuels.
03:12 We expect that the race will be tough enough so that we can really demonstrate the technology
03:41 in very hard conditions.
03:43 We feel it's more like the original Dakar, with some challenges, new technologies and
03:48 more free to explore this kind of solution.
03:53 We are going to show the world that you can race or continue racing, but intelligently,
04:02 without taking care of the planet.
04:04 And in that we are going to be great pioneers.
04:06 It has a path and we all have to follow it.
04:16 We are going to win.
04:21 (whooshing)
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