Dakar
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The fifth edition of the Dakar in Saudi Arabia promises to push man and machine harder than any of the previous ones.
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00:00 (dramatic music)
00:02 - Today we started to take part
00:07 of the Dakar Future Mission Meal.
00:09 (dramatic music)
00:12 There's no car like this on the Bivouac, I can tell you.
00:16 (dramatic music)
00:19 My name is Koen Sluiter, I'm a co-founder of e-Lions H2.
00:24 We are a company who are building zero emission solutions
00:27 for inner cities and for construction companies.
00:30 This project started in 2018 when we were on a June
00:36 of the Dakar Rally in Peru, and there I discussed
00:40 together with my co-founder Leon Janssen
00:43 about converting our own Amarok
00:46 into a zero emission vehicle to participate
00:49 in the Dakar Rally zero emission,
00:52 and thereby tell the world that it's possible
00:56 to drive zero emission, even in the hardest rally
00:59 in the world.
01:00 (dramatic music)
01:04 So our plan is to make conversion kits.
01:10 It's something like Ikea, should be small building blocks
01:14 with some connectors in between,
01:18 suitable for every car to make it from a diesel
01:21 into a zero emission vehicle.
01:24 So we had to develop a lot by ourselves.
01:27 We take out the engine, but we leave the gearbox in.
01:31 Therefore we can use a smaller engine,
01:33 and still keep the torque and the power you need
01:36 on the wheels, but because of the weight limit
01:40 of light commercial vehicles on three and a half tons,
01:43 it's very difficult to find the right balance
01:45 between range and the payload, which will be there
01:49 in the end after we have made the conversion.
01:52 And we want to have a range of minimum 500, 600 kilometers
01:57 on one charge or one filling.
02:01 And the big advantage with hydrogen,
02:03 we can fill up the tanks in only five to 10 minutes.
02:07 The big box on the back, well that's the fuel cell system.
02:17 It's a tool which makes a chemical reaction
02:20 between hydrogen and oxygen that will make water,
02:25 but by this process it will also give power
02:28 to charge the battery.
02:29 But it's a combination we made from the fuel cell,
02:33 including the size of the battery pack,
02:36 the size of the engine, in combination with the gearbox.
02:40 These different parts behind each other,
02:43 we are at this moment the only one who are making this.
02:49 The most challenging is, can we keep the fuel cell running?
02:53 Because it's very new technology.
02:56 What's gonna happen when we are driving in the dunes
03:00 or the rocks or whatever?
03:01 You never know what kind of situation we will end up.
03:04 It's a lot of work.
03:11 We've did it with quite a small team.
03:14 And yes, we are all excited about every mile,
03:18 every kilometer we make through the dunes.
03:20 (upbeat music)
03:23 (upbeat music)
03:26 (whooshing)
03:28 (whooshing)
03:31 [BLANK_AUDIO]