The 2024 edition of Dakar Rally will stretch across thousands of kilometers of Saudi Arabia’s desert. At the start is a MAN truck from the French HoleShot team, equipped with a HydraGEN HG-1 unit from Toronto dynaCERT.
The HydraGEN unit is about the size of a suitcase and contains distilled water that produces hydrogen through electrolysis on board the truck.
Speaker Nancy Massicotte narrates Truck transport that this hydrogen is carefully dosed and then fed into the air intake of the diesel engine, which would promote faster and cleaner combustion of the fuel.
In addition to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and diesel consumption, hybridization technology would increase the torque developed by the engine, spurring interest in participating in a race.
DynaCERT also believes that an event like the Dakar Rally is ideal to demonstrate the HydraGEN unit’s resilience in extreme weather conditions and pervasive vibrations.
For his part, the director of the HoleShot team, Alexandre Lemeray, believes that this is a great opportunity to show that motorsport can be less harmful to the environment.
“HydraGEN is already used in road transporters, so I am happy to show that it is possible to hybridize diesel engines with hydrogen energy,” says the man who has already taken part in ten editions of the Dakar Rally.
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