Someone Built A Monster Truck That Burns Hydrogen And Breathes Water
It’s the meanest green machine you’ll ever see.
Arrington Performance’s Arrington Hydrogen debuted a new hydrogen powered vehicle at the SEMA Show in Las Vegas last week that was hard to miss.
The performance and racing equipment specialist owned by Mike Copleand collaborated with Monster Jam’s Team Throttle Monster to convert its truck to run on hydrogen instead of a carbon-based fuel.
The 540-cubic-inch big block Chevy V8 was modified with PHINIA fuel injectors and other tweaks that allow it to produce 1,000 hp while only emitting water vapor as the byproduct of hydrogen combustion.
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“Working on this project with Mike Copeland has been so exciting, Arrington Hydrogen is changing the landscape for internal combustion and Team Throttle Monster will be leading the sport with zero carbon emissions that bring all the noise and excitement the fans expect,†Paul Jenson, owner of Team Throttle Monster, said in a press release.
Arrington has done a variety of hydrogen conversions over the past few years, including the Ford 5.0-liter it installed in a 1964 Ford Falcon Sprint that it brought to SEMA last year.
It’s also converted a GM 6.2-liter V8 to run on the fuel and used it to power a 1948 Chevrolet pickup it built with the hydrogen tank proudly displayed in the bed.
Several racing series are exploring hydrogen combustion engines as a carbon-neutral alternative to electric drivetrains because they don’t require heavy batteries and produces the same kind of noise as a gasoline-fueled engine.
NASCAR’s chief operating officer Steve O’Donnell said on Friday that he is planning to take a trip to Japan next week to check out hydrogen race cars being developed there with an eye on possibly incorporating the technology into future NASCAR cars, even as the series has built a prototype electric vehicle it plans to demonstrate next year.
Automaker shave also been looking for ways to make their factory electric sports cars more interesting to listen to. Dodge has gone as far as developing something it calls the Fratzonic Chambered Exhaust, which uses mixing chambers, exhaust pipes and force generators to recreate the sound and vibrations of a V8 engine.
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